Own your friends! on My Space

It's the daybefore Xmas, and I'm not happy.

It is NOT because in 2008:  

my retirement plan lost over half of its value; 

not even because there are six people I know died in the second half of the year (including three relatives, two very close friends, and a business partner) all out of the blue.  

It is because I can not buy my friend on My Space.  

Or, more precisely, buying him will not allow me to stop what he's going: Bagdad.  

 

According to My Space: 

"Using Own Your Friends you can:

• Buy and sell your friends as 'pets'.
• Make your 'pets' hug, punch, and poke each other.
• Change your pets' status messages to whatever you want.
• Find out how much your friends think you are worth!

What I want is for him to stay at home.  

What would he want?  

"the dumbass volunteered,"  another friend told me. 

This is him, who always does what he believes in.  From college to the Army, to Kuwait, to Bosnia, and back to teach high school, he made his own plans.  

May be we should celebrate that instead of buying him.  

Hopefully there will be one day that we can "Buy a soldier" and ask them to teach instead of fight, for whatever reason.