Facebook Finger Hover

The ‘Facebook finger hover’, hands up who’s done it, come on now, be honest, don't pretend you don't know what it is. You know you've done it and probably more than once. Hovered over the ‘add friend’ button of an ex, lingered long enough but not quite had the courage to go through with it, or maybe common sense talked you round, pulled your finger back just in time.

I bet it was the schoolroom sweetheart wasn’t it? Or the one you shared your first time with? The one you promised to love forever, who promised that the love would never die. But it did die didn’t it? Of course it did and how much water has passed under the bridge since?

You think about them now and then,  when you hear ‘your tune’, (what was it? Mr Big ‘I’m the one who wants to be with you?’ ‘Or George Michael, Different Corner’?)  And then, when you’re drunk or tired, or a bit lonely those thoughts turns to searches and the finger starts to hover. 

Why do you do it? Do you think turning back the clock to happier times will solve the problems? Do you really think they were happier times? Won't it create more problems than it solves?

So what if you did it? What if the finger came down and the request was sent? How bad could it be? What’s the worst that can happen?

They could ignore it, how would that make you feel? Or they could accept it, and then what?

Would that open a can of worms that is best left unopened? Do you really want to go back in time? It wouldn’t be the same. It couldn’t be the same. Could it?

No cubes today but a reminder of those two wonderful songs.