TOTALLY WIRED

摘要

A picture, captured six years ago, still manages to make me envious: five of my childhood friends, intoxicated and sprawled out on a sleeper couch, grinding away at various games on their handheld Nintendo 3DS consoles. It was a year after college graduation, and we'd taken a brief, undeserved vacation to the Delaware shore. We'd all had trouble acclimating to post-college life and decidedly did not have our shit together. For two days, my friends huddled and gossiped about their virtual friends in the 3DS life-sim game Tomodacht Life. Whenever they had a free moment, they'd begin unzipping those fabric cases. I didn't have a 3DS, so I grabbed a friend's Polaroid and snapped the picture.