Natalia

April 23, 2020 | Colombia | 20-29 years

I was going to a mall with a friend on our bikes, when we got there we found that men and women were spread out in the mall, each in each middle of the mall. Then she and I began to walk in, looking at people smoking, getting drunk, and taking drugs, there were young prostitutes and "bad" boys, we walked between the halls and each demonstrated decay. After a while she was lost from my sight, I spent hours and hours, desperately looking for her in the shopping center and its surroundings, when I finally found her looking for me in her cycle, I yelled at her—Natalia! About three times, a little confused, she looked everywhere and could not find me. When I was finally in front of her, I yelled at her and there I realized that she did not see me. She kept looking for me. I felt powerless and in the end I knew that I no longer existed. I never felt "not exist" so real.