Natalie Hurt

Missing Someone Who Is Bad For You

Do you remember Gotye’s one hit wonder Somebody That I Used to Know? I remember dancing to that song as a 12 year old, belting it over and over again until my mom literally forbade me from listening to it. Now 20 years old, I just heard it play in a movie, and suddenly I’m feeling tears fill my eyes. Memories of someone who had fallen out of my life invaded my mind and poisoned me with an all-consuming sense of loss. Suddenly I’m sitting next to my long-term partner thinking about someone else I used to hold close before him. Someone who’s caused me pain. Someone who I haven’t talked to in over a year. I realize it isn’t about Gotye’s song at all.