Dear No Good Friend I Never Should Have Had,

I'm not really sure why I ever became friends with you. Maybe I thought you were cool at the time or maybe I thought we had a lot in common, but boy was I wrong. At first, our friendship was awesome. We really clicked for a little while until it all went bad. There was even a time when I would have considered you to be one of my best friends.

When we first became friends, I ignored some of the little things you did that bothered me, like how you always made me your second choice and how you didn't often follow through with anything you said you would do. I didn't allow your negativity and bad attitude to affect me the way it should have, considering the fact that the few venting sessions that everyone needs every once in a while turned into constant nagging and complaining. I looked the other way when you treated other people, including my other friends, in ways that I didn't agree with. I wanted to make our friendship work, and all the while I put aside some of my own morals and allowed myself and others to fall victim to your actions.

It took longer than it should have for me to realize that you were anything but a friend to me. A friendship should be an equal relationship in which you meet each other in the middle-- at the very least. What I found in my relationship with you was that I was constantly going above and beyond for you, just to be disappointed by you in return. Whenever I was feeling low, you pushed me down further. You didn't encourage me to be my best self, and you certainly did not want what's best for me. You benefitted from our relationship while I was crippled by it.

You and I both know what caused our friendship to end in the long run. I do not regret ever being your friend but I do cherish that day when I finally cut you out of my life. My biggest regret is that I actually gave up time with my true best friends to spend time with you. I hope that after all was said and done, you gained something from our friendship, because it would be a shame for all that time to have been a waste for the both of us. I hope that my positive attitude rubbed off on you, and I hope that you realize what you lost when we stopped being friends. Most importantly, I don't hate you and never could, but there's comes a time when you have to make decisions about what's best for you. I did just that by ending my friendship with you.