Dear Ex-Best Friend,

It’s been a couple of years since we have stopped talking to each other, but I still find myself thinking about you from time to time. Never in a million years did I think that we would ever stop being best friends because you were always my person and someone that completely understood me. I used to look at other friendships and think that none of them compared to ours because we practically could have been sisters with everything that we had in common. But, I lost you and there are no words to describe that feeling.

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We never got into any disagreement to end our friendship; we simply just drifted apart. Up until this day, I have not found one friend that has compared to the bond that we held together. We used to call each other up every couple of hours to see how the other was doing or to answer homework questions together because being alone got boring.

We would take random adventures together and find ourselves in the weirdest situations, but we would be laughing the whole time. Our sleepovers consisted of zero sleep and that was completely okay with the both of us because somehow we never managed to have a silent moment. Our sentences would be completed by one another because we understood exactly what the other was thinking before we got the chance to finish our thought processes. Sometimes, we didn’t even need to talk, we just looked over and smirked because we had the same exact thoughts. No one would ever, or could ever, understand our adventures or decipher our text messages unless they actually went along with us and saw how truly attached to the hip we were.

I thought you would be my maid of honor when I got married and spoil my children, when I actually had them. Nothing prepared me for this to end as quickly as it did, and it completely sucks. I still talk about you to people and cry about it when I’m alone because you aren’t in my life anymore. There have been so many times where I have been tempted to text you and catch up where we left off, but life is different now.

We are both seniors in college and want different things out of a friendship than what we wanted in high school. You made me a stronger person and allowed me to realize that I could handle someone walking out of my life, even if at one point they were one of the most important people in it. I am more careful on who I let into my life now because I don’t ever want to feel that feeling of abandonment ever again. I never realized how much I truly love with all my heart until you left my life (and I love myself for that now).

I just wanted to let you know that I wish you nothing but the best in life. I truly hope you find the dream guy that you’ve always wanted to marry and have many, many children. I hope you find the perfect job and vacation to all the places that we said we would go together. I will always cherish the times we spend together because they sincerely meant the world to me and I will probably always tell people stories about the times we spend together. But, thank you for showing me that I don’t need to be in someone’s life that doesn’t want me in it. I would have never realized it without you.