In a staring contest between me and the cookie/brownie/cake/everything else that is sweet, I always end up blinking first. But that is okay because this is one of those games where I almost instantly feel like a winner after losing. *burp

With Facebook Timeline, it is now easier to access past posts. This could go either way; either you hate what you posted or you do not. Good thing there is an option to delete these posts. Deleting them is optional really, unless you have a serious cyberstalker situation. :p

I spent a good two hours “cleaning” my previous posts. I would like to think that it was both a thorough and an aggressive cleaning sesh. Haha! 75 percent of what I deleted were posts from late 2008 to early 2009. :P

Some thoughts:

1. New Facebook user me (circa 2008) was annoying. :p Looking back, I used Facebook like Twitter. I posted almost every insignificant, minute, and trivial detail about my everyday life. Haha! One of my first status messages was me wanting an intellectual conversation. What the hell does that even mean? Haha!

I posted “I am so stressed”-type of status messages, almost as frequent as posts about being bored. I also had these vague posts like “going somewhere” and quite a number of passive-aggressive posts. Haha!

2. I am grateful that every day we grow up or at least we are given the opportunity to do so and choose to do so. Reading through my past status messages, I can say that I have grown since then. I have learned how to move on and had moved on. I also think that time has helped me mature, with realizations like we do not always get what we want and people change, including ourselves.

3. I discovered some staple “likers” and “commenters” of posts. It is amazing though how some people can go from regularly tagging you in posts and memes to having no interactions with you anymore, Facebook or otherwise. But that is okay. See? Change. :)

4. On a lighter note, depending on how you have fared, you will notice how much weight you have gained (or lost). Maybe both. :p That’s all. :p

P.S. I opted not to untag or delete photos of me drunk. It will be nice to look at them and say that I am a responsible drinker now and how I have higher alcohol tolerance. Hahaha! It’s a win-win situation. :)