John Thomas Johnson

There have been so many people that I have known or been acquainted with through the years with whom I am no longer in regular contact. I look for some of them on the internet and sometimes I think I find them. This kind of searching makes me think of the likely possibility that some of them are making an attempt to find out whatever happened to me. Unfortunately, “John Johnson” returns about 806,000 results in Google and even I have no idea how many of them may include a reference to me.To make it easier, I am using this site to let them know that yes, I’m the one that they remember and I’m still doing stuff. I will be posting the link in places that people will likely look in to find me.

Besides the people I remember, there are people that I think know of me, although I don’t necessarily think I know them. I’ve never been a background person, so my name is out there wherever I have gone and whatever I have done. Of course, it helps to have a memorable name.

Occasionally, I consider this when I come in contact with someone who clearly knows me and who calls me by name, while I am struggling to try to remember who they are. I play along, hoping something they say will cause me to remember, but sometimes I never do. I always assume at first it must be my memory that is faulty. So no matter what, I will at least reply excitedly, “Hey, [reading aloud whatever is written on your name tag], how are you doing?”