Friend Request

by Laura Marshall

know that Facebook offers an idealised version of life, edited and primped to show the world what we want it to see.

Will we hold them for ever, these hurts we bear from our teenage years?

The end of something is always the start of something else, even if you can’t see it at the time.

When you leave something behind you, you think that’s it. It’s gone. But you can’t leave yourself behind. This is it; this is you, for life.

Perhaps it’s simply not possible to truly know another person. When it comes down to it, we’re all alone. Sometimes we don’t even know ourselves.