BETRAYED

    How does it feel like to be betrayed by a friend? I mean ignored by a friend you know mutually. How does it feel when you are betrayed by an online friend? (I mean a friend you made online) how would you feel anyway when you get ignored by a Facebook friend? Shocking, isn’t it?

    I have seen and come across, even looked into an online friend’s face several times and still have conducted myself like I never knew her even to have a chat with her. I met her the first time when I was with one of my cousins, Prince Ankrah. We were both at the roadside and I was with him to board a van back home. Her name was Cecilia. Prince told me she was his mate back at high school. Days later I “added” her on Facebook, after seeing a picture of her on Prince’s page. From then on, much hasn’t happened between us, as friends on Facebook. I remember once sending her a “hi” message while she was online but she never replied. Initially, I thought she was really grown enough- due to the way she looked in her pictures, until I saw her on the side of the road one blessed evening. I was surprised. I thought she was so short. Let’s say she was about four feet or four point five feet tall. I really got surprised. I caught sight of her on the roadside as she passed by me, on the way home. I began to think I was so tall then. Since that time thereon, I think I’ve met her about five more times without bothering to communicate with her.  Some days ago, I was at an internet café and there she was too, I recognized her instantly. Then she also stole a glance at me. Then I began to think that she could recognize me as one of her friends on Facebook. Unfortunately for me, I met her today (this is about the sixth time) in the same internet café. And this time our eyes met again (it wasn’t for any special reason). We recognized each other again and still no communication, despite the fact that we’re friends on the social network site, Facebook.

   Sometimes I wonder why we even continue being friends on Facebook. I wonder why we still keep our friendship on Facebook. It’s like making friends and denying them later on (just like Judas Iscariot denied Jesus Christ in the Holy Bible). That’s how I feel like now. I just want to be a good friend to her. I want to talk friendly to her next time but I don’t want to at the same time (for another reason). I begin to wonder what would happen when I begin to meet more online friends in the real world just like I did meet Cecilia face to face. I’m I going to ignore them too?   And are they going to equally ignore me? I don’t think that should happen (for we are real friends). I don’t think you should ignore your friends either.

   But come to think of it, that Cecilia (she now has a different username on Facebook) wasn’t she the one rather ignoring me? Anyway, it should be over now. I learnt enough from the experience.