One upon a time you were the best friend I thought I could ever have, and then you weren't. When we had big blow up fights in high school, we always worked it out. I blamed those fights on us just growing as teenage girls and that it wasn't anything more than that.

As time went on, it progressed to harsher words coming from you. Words that put me down, and words that said I wasn't a good person, and I needed to change. Not that I'm saying I'm perfect, because I know I have faults, but I never said those kind of words to you, even if I was really mad, I held my tongue because I knew that once you say something you can never unsay it.

Years went on, and years of bottled up emotions just wanted to explode out. So I ended the relationship, I cut you off, I couldn't hear your harsh words anymore. This was the best decision I made towards a friendship. Clearly we weren't the right people for each other. Clearly I wasn't what you needed in a friend. When I first realized this I was deeply saddened, and I wanted to reach out to you so many times, but I knew if I did reach out and try to rekindle, it will just end the same way again.

I miss the little fun things we used to do, like watch scary movies, got to T.J. Maxx and try obnoxious things on, and go out for Chinese food, but I don't miss how you treated me. I deserve better than the way you have treated me.

I have an awesome circle of friends that don't put me down, and make me cry. They lift me up, and help me to blossom in whatever direction I want to, and they support me with the decisions I choose to make. I never knew what it was like to have friends that are like this. It is truly sad that you didn't respect me enough to be that kind of person.

I don't hate you, I still love you, and I hope your life is blossoming as much as mine has. Thank you for showing me what friends shouldn't be like.