The Slow, Inevitable Creep Towards Invisibility
I am invisible these days.
It was inevitable, really, I’ve felt it happening for such a very long time.
The gradual, fading away kind of thing that happens to people whilst they get on with their lives.
In the background, always just out of sight.
Not the kind of invisibility where one day you are there and then suddenly you are not.
That's the kind of invisibility that actually gets you noticed, once you have gone.
No, this has been slow, an almost inevitable creep towards transparency.
The kind that makes people think “oh yes, him, wasn't he around years ago?” as they try to remember how, if at all, you briefly touched their lives.
Or made no impression on them whatsoever.
That’s the kind of invisibility I mean.
