Ghost

Today, Facebook had a strange suggestion for me; the suggestion that I say hello to an old friend, a friend who has now passed on. It was eerie. For the longest time, there was a lingering lack of finality as the friend request I sent just before he died was never answered. That moment, the uncanny moment when I thought perhaps we had all been mistaken, that somehow that faint hope that settles around the edges of rationality when someone just disappears...
He didn't just swim back from the ocean, of course. Of course. Someone was just updating his Facebook page, of course. But to see the life there, the writing on his wall, as people continue to remember, and post messages to and about him, sharing pictures and stories.
I watched a video of him and felt sad.