Dear Mean Girls,

It's me.

I just wanted to tell you I am so much better off without you. I never knew I could live up to my full potential and have REAL friends until I decided to not be your friends anymore.

I truly believe you all have good inside of you, but until you all aren't friends anymore, you won't know. It took me awhile to realize that I wasn't the reason why people didn't like me. It was my association with you that made them not like me.

Leaving your friend group was hard because when I became friends with you, I lost all of my previous friends. Most importantly, I lost myself by becoming friends with you. In the end, leaving was one of the best things I could have done.

I guess you figured out that I was simply no use to you anymore. After multiple occurrences of you finding someone better to hang out with instead of me, I took a look from the outside looking in and realized how toxic you all were. It was fun for awhile, but then I got sick of playing your same games. It's like no one has ever told you "no" in your lifetime.

You moved onto someone new and simply ditched me as your friend. I am not mad at you for doing what you did. I am mad that you're still mean to others that have done nothing wrong to you. No one deserves to be treated the way I was after being friends with you.

After I wasn't your friend anymore, I tried to be confident and hold myself together, but it was hard when walking down the hallway and all I heard behind me was people whispering all the nasty things you said about me.

Now that I am in college, I grew as a person and now know what a true friend is. I want to say thank you. You put me through some tough times in my life but all you put me through during high school has molded me into the person I am today.

Also, I want to say that I'm sorry. I'm sorry that no one came along in your life when you were young and taught you how to be kind. This was just a short phase in my life of shutting people out, and only wanting to hang out with you really brought me closer to my family after.

I am really glad that my parents loved me and taught me how to be kind and how to love. It is unfortunate that people like you don't get that guidance that I got. Self-love is important, and that's what got me through this experience.

Thanks for all the memories and laughs, but your toxic friendship was not what I needed.

Sincerely,

Your old friend