Social Media Remembrance

Every so often, I think to myself that the Wolvog should speak to a friend of mine who has an interesting job that marries the Wolvog’s two passions of computer science and sound engineering. So I go on Facebook to send a message, and I suddenly remember that my friend is gone. He died in 2015, so not even recently. I should be able to hold this fact in my mind, but I’ve done this several times now.

It’s hard sometimes with people you don’t see every day. Who are only marginally in your present day life, even if they took up a chunk of your memory in a past life. Social media makes everyone feel like they’re still present; just a click away.

And then with Facebook open, mourning the fact that I can’t connect these two wonderful brains together to talk about sound, a friend comments on a blog post and I remember that he too works in the same field. And so a different connection is made; bringing the past into the present.