Column | First love, second chance

Like most significant things, this too started as a joke. Facebook tracking Younger millennials quoted my tweet saying, “me and who” in current social media speak, wondering who they will run into and run away with at a future alumni event. “I sort of stalk her on Instagram,” one person wrote, “and the more I see of her everyday life, the more I fall in love with her.” When I asked, this person said he was in his early 40s. Their families filed missing persons’ complaints, it said, “following this, the police summoned the lovers, who later arrived at the station”. Childhood love harks back to a time when life did not demand much from you, nor you from it; time stretched infinitely and hope was a real thing.