Do you know what "nemesis" means?

I'm not sure if I believe in soul mates. No one has proven to me that it is impossible, therefore it IS possible that each person has one soul mate wandering the planet, and that Fate might one day bring them together. With 6 billion+ people on the planet, the odds are pretty good that there's at least one person out there who is perfect for you.


But if you have a soul mate, then odds are you also have the opposite: an Arch Nemesis. Someone who is perfect for you in that you would have a completely irrational, unconditional hatred of each other. You would want to spend the rest of your life with your soul mate, and you would thus want to devote your life to destroying your nemesis. 


When I was eight or nine years old, Mum made a new friend at work. New Friend happened to be the single parent of a boy my age, named Gabriel. Obviously, it made sense for Mum and New Friend to hang out on the weekend, so they could have girl bonding time while their kids played together. 


So one Saturday, New Friend came over, and I met Gabriel. 

It was just one of those things, at least at first--two nine-year-olds meet for the first time and size each other up. And within 2.8 seconds we decided that we did not like each other. 




10 minutes later:

There aren't words for the hatred that I felt. I think the first fight started because we were playing Wolfenstein on the computer Mum stole from her office (Windows 3.0!!!). I did not agree with Gabriel's game tactics. One shove led to us on the floor kicking, screaming, punching, biting, and basically behaving like rabid hyenas until Mum and New Friend came running and pulled us apart. 


Later, we had another epic fight over who got to eat the leftover spring roll from dinner. I pushed him down the stairs for calling me a midget sissy girl. He wailed me in the head with my remote control car for calling him stupid. I locked him in the bathroom (the scary one downstairs with the weird vent in the ceiling--the vent that screamed when you turned the light on). He pushed me into the pool and attempted to hold my head under the water. 


My memories of that first day are not as good as Mum's. She said she was scared. She had never seen children behave in that way. New Friend and Gabriel only came over a few more times after that. I guess they kept trying because they thought that if we got used to each other, we could learn to get along.


Lol.


So there was a point to all of that--Mum and I were reminiscing yesterday, which is what made me think of Gabriel. I asked her what his last name was.


I found him on Facebook.


What should I do? I've never had such a deep hatred for anyone else in my life. I don't hate him anymore, since that was like 17 years ago, but I am curious to know what he's like now. What would you gals do? I want to message him with a "do you remember me?" sort of thing, but is that creepy? Or weird? Or stalkerish? I just don't know.


Some replies to your wonderful comments:
Amy, Leto, Xo-Glass-Slippers-oX, All.That.Wander.Are.Not.Lost, and Olivia, thanks for the good luck wishes on the job! 


Hi to Nessa, and other new followers!


Lol Starving Artist--my laundry used to sprawl all over the room as well. There were different piles for clean and dirty. Mum got fed up looking at it though. Can't say I blame her... :D


Not.quite.ana, is that Halloween store open all year? And yeah we have a great supermarket selection around here. There's over 20 supermarkets within 15 minutes of my house, so that probably contributes to it... 


Cinnamon Brown, I would LOVE an Ndebele doll!!


MLS, I have a hard time doing tarot readings for myself, too. I always get mostly swords, which means I overthink things. :/


Ariana, I actually do torture Mum with Satanic randomness. :D I'm surprised she hasn't had me committed and/or exorcised. I'm constantly telling her to TRUST IN SATAN!!! and whenever I use her shower I write HAIL SATAN on the mirror when it's all steamed up. And of course I don't mind you copying my decor--I'm flattered!


bonesarepure, what are the other vitamin water zero flavours like? I love the go-go one, but the only other one I tried was like the grape one and it tasted like cough medicine, so I'm scared to try any of the others...


<3 you, Mona!!!!


Madison, that stinks about not finding stuff in your grocery stores. I try to find things that should be available everywhere so you guys can all find it, but it's tough. :( What country are you in? I shall try to find stuff that you can get there!


Jenn, I love those names!! Even Starhopper...


Elk, yeah I got Stelmaria from Phil Pullman's books... And I want goblin meat!!! We can get the English and Irish stuff in a nearby supermarket so imma see if they have it. If not, relatives shall have to smuggle it over with my ham, bacon, Silk Cut, tea, and Bisto.


Tracy, I actually made myself a mini fluffernutter today, only 100 calories! One slice low fat bread (45), 1/2 tbsp low fat peanut butter (45), and 1/2 tbsp Fluff (10). Yummy!!


Ophelia, thanks for the lovely comment!!


I'm going to try and go comment on some of your blogs now, girlies. Sorry if I'm missing some--I haven't had much Blogger time these last couple days, but I'm always reading your blogs on my phone! I found an app with a blog feed or something, but I can't comment from my phone. >_<


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