Today, I canceled my Friendster account. It took me a little while following the spam incident in part because it was hard to delete the kind and funny testimonials people had written about me.
Well, in all the time I was on Friendster, Matt had begged me to write a testimonial for him. I just couldn’t. Our relationship was/is too complex for me to capture in any sort of sprightly, forced, or off-handed manner. I knew any testimonial for him would have to include elements that he might not like. So inspiration never came.
Of course, today, after my account is gone and I can not post something about Matt, I get my spark. I am posting this without his approval, so I hope he doesn’t get mad at me. But here it is, Matt: Your extra-Friendster testimonial.
Matt is like an unusual-tasting dish. You’re not sure at first if you get him, but you like him right away. His abrupt disavowal can leave an unpleasant taste in your mouth, until you hear him laugh and the flavor then returns. You can recognize him on the outside, but once you dig in, you realize there’s too much going on inside for you to comprehend or distill. You may devour him and shower him with praise while he remains oblivious to your hunger, and when you stop eating, he looks over with the cutest face and wonders where you went. Sometimes you can’t get enough of him, and several servings can’t satisfy you. Sometimes you’re just not in the mood for the complexity. You think you can live without him, but when you get a hint of his bouquet, you need some of him right away. And as surprising as if such an exotic dish were to become animated off the plate, if he responds and embraces you in return, you blink, curious, and then melt.
thatmattdude Expounded Thusly:
Um. It wasn’t really begging. I just didn’t understand why, given our delightful history/friendship, Steve refused to throw some nice words my way.
Now I see why!! Geeze. I sound like food poisoning that tasted good going down but later proved to be infected with that which we do not speak of.
Speaking of rotten, don’t you think it’s rotten that Steve felt it necessary to include negative comments into a testimonial?? I mean com’n.. its friendster after all! Testimonials are supposed be all fun and nice! Not a dissertation on all that is good and bad about a person!!!
and besides, I always thought of myself more like Apple Pie – Warm and Wholesome.
Steve Expounded Thusly:
Yeah, it’s kinda not really a testimonial and more a “poem thing” about us. But that’s kinda how it works. When balancing the good with the less good (nothing in here is bad, I feel), the less good is all one notices.
This would never have been posted on Friendster. But on my own site, I guess I felt it was okay, a way to try to put into words our relationship and how I feel. We’re a weird match, as friends and when we were dating. It’s complicated to write about. If you’d seen the Love! Valour! post, maybe this kind of state of mind I’m in would make sense.
I care about you a great deal. I read this and it makes me smile because it’s who we are together.
Steve Expounded Thusly:
Oh, BTW, I have it on god authority that Matt is joking around here, so to make my tone more jovial, I’ll say:
Maybe more like chocolate cream pie…
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