I was once a fish

I am not innocent. Once when I was younger I asked my friend to catfish someone that I was “dating” to get out of the relationship.

Once upon a time I was with a person who we will call The Person for their protection during this story. I’d met The Person a couple of years ago at a close cousin’s birthday party. After the party I never really thought about The Person or kept up with them on social media.

Fast forward a couple of years later and The Person found me on facebook. I did not recognize their profile, but I was adding strangers on facebook at that point anyway so I never really thought much about it. Maybe a couple of hours later I got a message from The Person asking if I remembered them. I confessed that I did not, and The Person refreshed my memory of the party that night. We messaged each other back and forth for a couple of days. Fast forward again, and The Person confessed that they had a crush on me. I was young and bored, so I mustered up the same feelings. A couple of minutes later we were “dating. “

I finally took it upon myself to actually look at this person's profile pictures, and I mean really look at all of them instead of just glancing. They did not have many, but the ones that were posted were pretty , so that solidified my decision to “date “ them.

Fast forward  a couple of weeks and things were going great together.

One day as The Person and I talked they shared with me that they did not have their hair done. I had never seen The Person’s real hair, so I asked them to send a picture.

Once they sent the picture I was very confused. I did not understand how the two could be the same person ! I went back through their profile pictures and then I realized that they only had flattering pictures of PORTIONS of their face. I thought back to that day of the party, but their face was fuzzy in my memory.

The saddest part of this story is that  I was so young and shallow that I actually asked my friend to set up a fake profile picture and account with the messenger app we were using, and tell The Person that I was cheating so that they would break up with me.

Needless to say I was out of that situation pretty soon.

That is my closest catfish experience.