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Dear Life

An anonymous letter to Life

Allyssa Wetzel
Apr 12, 2017
Siena Heights University
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Dear Life
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Life is crazy and that's alright!

So this week I wanted to write a "fictitious" letter to Life.

Dear Life,

I love how funny you are especially now when everything is changing. I love how you have me now questioning my sexuality which I know that I'm not 100% straight heck I'm probably not straight at all. I don't want to even label besides the fact that I'm not straight but shouldn't I have known that I wasn't straight a long time ago. I mean first of all I tried to kiss a girl twice when I was younger and without inhibitions and now that I'm older I can do more and yet I'm scared because I don't want to be a monster. Sure the girl of yesteryear might have been straight but it is too scary to go back out. And yet you try to have me kiss a girl at any given moment and you make me happy when thinking about being with a girl. Not that there is anything wrong with that I just have no idea how to tell my parents. You make me have irregular periods which could be for a lot of different reasons but I'm scared to figure out what it is. And you let me be a Junior for a semester and a half which means that I will be a Senior after my older sister graduates as a Senior. Life you are so crazy right now I just don't know. I do know this though, I love how you have given me many different opportunities. By the way can you give me more opportunities.

Thank you,

X


Dear X,

I don't make you do anything you do everything yourself. You're welcome for everything that I have given you. And I will keep being weird so keep hanging on for the ride. I'm not too sure about the period thing but just hang in there. Look up ways that you can come out or just discover yourself more. Thank you for acknowledging how funny I am. And I will look for more opportunities for you.

Sincerely,

Life

Life will be weird. Life will not be normal. And as it is said Life will give you something to make your life hard but you are going to just have to work through it.

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