Dear Wise Mumsnetters – help me decide on this one! It’s my birthday today, I’m 66. That’s just context. I’m pretty introverted and not interested in birthday fuss. I lead quite a quiet life these days with my partner. Got two lovely grown up children and three lovely small grandchildren. Backstory – my family of origin were pretty shit – although I now realise they could in fact have been far worse. But I haven’t seen any of them for years. I’m the youngest (by far) of four girls. Both parents died a long time ago and my oldest sis died a few years ago. My next up from me sis (eight years older) is on Facebook; we are not friends on FB but both aware of each other. Thereby most relevant backstory but without the emotional bits.
So this morning I’m pootling about on Facebook when I get a notification that my sis has shared a photo of mine. I don’t post many pix of myself in fact hardly any, it’s not what I use Fb for. This is therefore a nearly 3 yr old pic. She captions it with (not the exact words) this is my sis, she’s 66 today, we had nothing in common and drifted apart not seen her for thirty years or so x.
It’s fine, I’m not fussed about her saying what she wants and sharing this.
However my impulse is to reply on her post – something like – you may have drifted apart but I made a conscious decision.
Am I mad, just poking a long sleeping bear, totally pointless exercise? Or should I give in to my – admittedly slightly malicious – impulse to chip in my own comment on her post?
One way is dignified silence – the second way is to possibly open it all up – do I really want to even contemplate that level of nonsense?
Thoughts gratefully received, thank you.