I finally met him. So I started off with the question I was
dying to ask.
“Recently, you said that you stalk people on-line in your
spare time. Why?”
“At best, it is curiosity. At worst, curiosity went wrong.”
“Wrong, in what way?”
“It would feel pretty gruesome afterwards, because I would
not like what I find. However, by that time, it would be too late. And I keep
on making the same mistake.”
He later claimed that he had no particular object of
interest. He admitted, though, that his last target was his former lover, who recently
tied the knot with someone whom he deemed far from worthy. “Still, I believe
that I have dodged the bullet. I have seen the wedding pictures on Facebook. The
bride looked hideous.”
I could not help pointing out to him that although
on-line stalking is undeniably common these days, given the easy access of search
engines and social media, he might have gone a little overboard.
“Maybe,” he replied matter-of-factly. “I believe that I am
not supposed to scrutinise what I dislike about people just to make me feel
good about myself. For the time being, though, I choose to see it as a bit of research
that I must do before moving on to do something else, which may or may not be more worthwhile.
We’ll see.”
photo taken from here.
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