I received a 'friend request' on facebook yesterday.
The thing is, it was from a person that I have never met who lives in Croatia. I've never even heard of her. So I look at her profile. Okay, she's wearing a wetsuit in her photo and she lists freediving as one of her interests. On further investigation, I find that we have two friends in common who are also freedivers and who are also wearing wetsuits in their photos. Hmm, in my profile picture I am wearing a wetsuit too!
So I have to wonder: Is she a friend 'collector', someone who seeks out people with similar interests and asks them to be her friend? I imagine her as a child, pinning butterflies onto a large board in her room. A little label under each one states species, location, date... Perhaps now freedivers have become her thing with facebook being the virtual board she pins us all on. We do, I suppose, make for an interesting collection as we are a somewhat rare species with small pods spread throughout the world. So she sees someone with a wetsuit and thinks, I must have them for my collection.
Then I remember something about freedivers: they like to travel. Maybe she's thinking ahead, creating this global network of freedivers so that she'll always have a place to stay anywhere in the world. Well, if she ever ends up in Vancouver I suppose she can stay on my couch for a night or two.
But the minute she tries to stick me with a pin, she's out.
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