Wednesday, April 23, 2008

WOW!!! and the Meditation of the Week

I have a MySpace page, in case you didn't know. I have had a lot of bizarre e-encounters with "friends" who have requested my friendship through MySpace. A while back, I went through and released a lot of my friends, bringing it down to a more manageable and believeable number for myself. I have become very selective on who I now accept into my friendship circle. (In the hopes of minimizing the bizarreness) I no longer accept friendships from random bands who are seeking to increase their "fan base." I no longer accept friendship from anyone I do not know or do not have friends that I recognize from my own base.

So... today, I log into MySpace and I have two friendship requests. As par for my course now, I opened the profiles of these maybe-future-friends. The first one seems to be some sort of environmentally friendly dude that is into all things natural. Sorta along my line of thinking and although I didn't see anyone I knew there, I liked his space. It felt nice. One new friend. Wahoo!

The second one, I was curious about. A beautiful black, young woman posing against a fence. I felt leery, at first, because I have seen way too many MySpace spaces that rope me into something innocent-looking that is so NOT innocent underneath the surface. Timidly, I opened her space and stopped breathing when it popped up immediately. There was nothing awful or scary or pornographic. No. That wasn't why I had stopped breathing. I stopped breathing because this is what I saw...

I stopped breathing because there, at the top of her page, were my very own words, my very own quote, from MY website, which you can get to through a link on my MySpace home page. I stopped breathing because this was the first time in my life that MY words had touched someone in a way that they used them as a "famous quote." You cannot see it here, but her whole page is covered with famous quotes from famous people. And MY quote is HER quote right now. OMG! It feels so surreal.

(Now... the cynical side of me is noting that this could very well be some sort of hack/scam/phishing scheme and I am going to regret accepting her friendship.)

Patooey on the cynical side of me, right now! Right now, in this moment, I am going to revel in this beautiful discovery and believe that it is for real. I am going to believe that she was touched by that quote and that is why it is there on her page.

I feel happy!

Oh... and... this week's Meditation Prisoners of War has been available for quite some time. If you would like to read it, CLICK HERE.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Neat.

I have avoided MySpace, but recently (yesterday?) jumped on the Facebook bandwagon. So many things on the internets - I can barely keep up with adult entertainment, ya know?

I like the bumper stickers, btw.

Oh - TT - did Eddie choose the topic, and if so, do you know what it is? Gah - I can't remember!

Angie K. Millgate said...

Sid~

Yeah. I got roped into facebook too. (The rope was thrown by the friend who I roped into MySpace, so I guess it's fair.) It is WAY time consuming, what with all the "activities" that fly around it. I was going more insane with facebook than I ever did with MySpace. Felt way out of control. So good luck with that. You may find there is NO time left over for adult entertainment.

Glad ya liked the stickers. Can't wait for Juls opinion!!! LOL (She wrote an acidic post some time back about tacky bumper stickers. I think both of mine were on the list. HAHAHAHAH Gotta love her!)

And funny you should ask about the TT topic. I was going into my email box to look it up when I discovered you had commented. Ta-da! Here it is: "What if I was 10 years old?"

Anonymous said...

Heh - thanks. I'll blame the lemon martini on that one for not 'memberin'.

**pondering** I may skip this one. 10 wasn't a fun year.

Angie K. Millgate said...

LOL on the memory lapse!

I don't know if 10 was a fun year for me or not. Me, with the memory of a sponge, I don't 'member 10. Hmmmm... interesting.

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