I just spent two hours looking for someone on Facebook (who isn’t important but let’s just say that he fundamentally altered the course of my life) only to come up empty, again, and I’m so frustrated I could cry. I mean, it makes sense considering I haven’t seen him since I was a kid and have only his first name and some vague idea of who his mom’s friends were at the time to go on, but still, ugh. I even tried to reverse google image search this picture that my mom sent me ages ago that I think he’s in but you can only see the very bottom of his face, and nope. nothing. I just wish I could remember his mom’s name. and I could ask my mom about it but I can’t think of how to do it in a casual way, and I can’t talk to her about this, I just can’t.
I can’t even explain why I want to find him so badly. I just want to see his face? It was such a long time ago. I just want proof that he was real. That he existed at the same time as me. It feels like he disappeared from the world in the same way his face disappeared from my memory. I can only picture it scrunched up in pain from the time he fell off the trampoline, and even then, it’s hazy. I know his hair was blond. I know his skin was pale. I know I thought that he was beautiful and that I was terrified of him, especially when he laughed. I know some other things too, things I can’t bring myself to type, but I want proof. I need proof. And I’m not sure I’ll ever get it.