Dear Old Friend,

Over time people change and I can say that over these last few months, you have become a person that I no longer want to associate myself with. When I first met you, you were a kind-hearted person who would do anything for the people in your life. Quickly, you became important to me because of the person you were. We became best friends in middle school and I thought that we would always be best friends. I thought that you would always be there for me, just like I have always been there for you. I never thought that you would become such a hateful person towards me and I am not completely sure what caused it.

Maybe it's because you changed when you met your current best friend? You did not like the fact that I didn't like her at all. You tried to tell me that she was just like me, but I just could not see that. I could also see the type of person you were turning into and I wasn't sure if it was because of her or not.

Ever since you met her, you have said some very hurtful things to me.

1. You said that no one liked me in high school.

2. You told me that I would not have survived high school without you.

(p.s. I can tell you that I would have survived just fine without you. You graduated early and left me there for an entire year by myself and I did just fine. I did not need you to protect me, or whatever it was you thought that you were doing for me.)

Your new best friend has been rude to me--she threatened me-- and you have done nothing about it. That showed me how much you just did not care about me anymore. You do not care about my feelings. You do not care about my life. When we were best friends, I mostly enjoyed the time we spent together. But let's face it, you are not the person I became friends with anymore. If you were, I would not have dreaded living with you this year, for good reason. Living with you was supposed to be great, but I hated almost every minute of being in that room. I was terrified of hearing you talk bad about me. I was terrified to see you or even hear you. You made me feel unwelcome in my own room and that is why I had to leave. I know that you were happy when I left. Why wouldn't you be? According to some people, I am crazy and I am sure that you are better off without me. You even made me feel like leaving school and never coming back and that takes a lot because I love going to UK. You have affected me in ways that I am not sure you understand and even if you did understand, I feel like you would not care.

I do not know if you are upset because I went to college and found a best friend who actually cares about me or if you are just upset with me to be upset with me. I will never understand what exactly I did to you because I feel like I have not done anything. You have lashed out on me several times, mostly for no reason at all. I know that I have done this to you, I am not denying that at all. I just hope that one day you realize how terrible of a person you have become. Maybe you are not a terrible person to other people, but you were definitely a terrible person to me this semester. I also hope you realize how great of a friend you have lost because no one will ever be there for you like I was. No one else would put up with the things that you have put me through. You have mentally scarred me for the rest of my life. You have made it to where I am skeptical of every person I meet because I think, "what if they end up like you?"

I do not want you to take this letter the wrong way. This is not my way of humiliating you or making you feel bad. I just honestly want you to understand how I have felt about everything. I still miss you, I really do. Just the other day I was reading some of the letters you had written me and I even opened the ones that I was not supposed to open for a couple years. The letters talked about how we would always be friends and how we would be there for each other for all of the big moments. I miss the girl who wrote those letters. The one that did not ever want to see anything hurt me. The one that defended me to the ends of the Earth. The one that could see us being friends forever. I miss the girl who cared about me endlessly. But, even though I still miss you, I know that we are better off apart. You have your own life now and I have mine. We will never fit into each other's lives anymore. I still love you with everything in me and I wish you were still my best friend, but life has a funny way of working things out. Maybe years from now we will see each other and be able to be friends again.

Love,

An Old Friend

THIS IS THE ARTICLE THAT IS DUE 12/30/2016