Are you forgettable?

[Stinkywizzleteets]

Do you ever consider the mark you’ve made on people in your life?

I’m one of the invisible or forgettable people.

I thought I was friends with everyone (on a particular scene) in my youth - not best friends but we’d stop and chat or hang out in pubs and clubs regularly over our youthful years 18-30. I even worked in some of the clubs and pubs too but nobody actually remembers me.

Recently there’s been talk of a reunion of one of the pubs long since gone and when I said I’d be up for it other members of the group I thought had known me for 30+ years asked ‘who are you?’ and it made me realise I really am forgettable.

I don’t want to famous, infamous or renowned but when I see people I thought I’d grown up with, made memories with and was friends with reminiscing about events I was at or worked at, it would be nice for one of them to say ‘oh I remember you...’ when I try to join in the chat but it never happens. This was my youth but it’s happened throughout adulthood too.

My own story aside, do you think some people are just forgettable?

Maybe friends is too strong a word I meant acquaintances

Better than than memorable for the wrong reasons.

I was a loud, opinionated, annoying teen. No one forgot me.

I am.
Noone bar one or two people remember me from school. I moved away at the end of year 11 and that was it.
I was never popular in school anyway and its been a trend throughout my life. No one remembers me from any place I've ever worked or I've always been that person who blends in, always awkward and always on the outside or second choice.

I'm 43 now, feel sad sometimes but now I take a kind of sad pleasure from purposely keeping myself to myself. Fuck em

But yes some people are forgettable doesn't mean anything wrong with us. Maybe we contribute to life in other ways!

I'm talking shite now, just ignore me lol

@Stinkywizzleteets I bet you’re memorable. Seriously. No one who could come up with your username isn’t fun and worth remembering!

I suspect I would be remembered as the one everyone bullied at school. It's one reason I stay off social media.

@Flyonawalk it’s from Ren & Stimpy - I cannot claim credit!

I'm not forgettable to the people who love me. I probably am to the people who dont. I'm pretty ordinary but I'm kind, helpful and friendly so I'd like to think I'd made a mark on some peoples lives :) xx

I was one of four dc who were ethnic minority at Secondary school in a very white area that’s was also sort of rural so kids were bussed in. There was close to a thousand dc at that school. I’m sure the racists who teased me haven’t forgotten me.

The last time I was in my home town I bought an item in a shop and the man behind the counter remembered me. I did not have a clue who he was, it was embarrassing for me.