I wish you had a 'Like' function, in real life, right below you or floating over you, like a reachable, tangible, fluffy halo I can wring my wrists through, fingers into, escape with me, disappear within you. I can easily 'Like' you. At which clicking, would mean you immediately knowing. No assumptions on that presumption, facebook notifications are immediate and efficient and I'm sure you'd know almost instantly if I 'Liked' you and if you didn't well at least you'd receive an e-mail informing you of this news. And I wouldn't need to sit here with worry. Sit here with my poems and notes and letters and blog entries perhaps maybe secretly wishing you had the capability of speech, thought, lingua franca, reason, abstraction to abstract of this and know, now, know, from the beginning of this, know that I have loved you. Months from this, if I grow out of 'Like' of you, I could as easily 'Unlike' you. At least Facebook acknowledges the volatility of human emotions, the reality being, one can never maintain another's attention for as long as other variables like others' attentions warranting attention is present. I appreciate this consideration in design. This is responsible engineering. Real life, on the other hand, is ironically quite unreal. Likeness is expected to be maintained, at a steady, fat plateau, fed by flowers, chocolates, sex, song dedications, wall-to-wall professions, cheesy haikus; except that when likeness wavers more defensive tactics i.e. romancing tactics are re-assessed, developed, put into motion; to compensate the lack of emoting being put into palpable motion. I can not go back to the 'Home' screen, edit my profile page according to incident (life-changing, personality-altering or otherwise) - I would always have to be known and remembered by some as 'that girl' (according to the time-period), even as their memories of 'that girl' does not coincide with my current profile info (I'm going with Facebook only because of recency). So this is 'that girl' saying this. 'that girl' to 'Like' now. 'that girl' reassuring you, that my 'Like'-ing isn't as mutable as all the 'Like'-ing, 'Comment'-ing, 'Share'-ing and 'Unlike'-ing and very much unlike the variables in this likeness. I 'Like' you.

I also sometimes wish I could caption pictures of cats well and make it funny. But I have trouble letting go of all natural grammatical reflexes and faculties if only for the sake of internet laugh-a-bility and even if I could, I'm just really not that funny.