A letter to a dear friend
Is there anything better than to express your feelings towards a friend in a very polite letter which you never send?
Dear friend,
I hope that you have been doing well.
I have spent the previous year hiding my feelings towards you until this task became my deepest of secrets. However, I manged to hide them well enough until I realized this year that I am burdened with worse feelings towards you.
I hate you! It seems as though I have hated you for quite a long time without realizing, and before you get mad and throw this letter away, I would like to clarify that once upon a time I liked you and befriended you thinking how lucky I was to always be next to someone like you.
Unfortunately, life changes and so do people. Do not be angered my friend, for it is very likely that the one who changed was me.
I am aware that from your perspective I was the evil one and the one at false, but in this letter I will only be saying what happened from my point of view, so do not be intimidated.
There are many things that I hate but these two are the ones I despise: being forced to work with people, and being treated like a child.
Dear friend, you have done both of these things and you probably do not even know that you did.
The previous year you tried to force me to work with you despite my trying to refuse without hurting your feelings. I succeeded in both hurting your feelings and failing to make you leave me alone.
As a result, I decided to dodge your requests or make up excuses, and unexpectedly I managed to do so for a whole year. The outcome, however, was very unpleasant. Your constant requests were such a nuisance that I had been driven on edge countless times.
I never cried as much as I cried last year. I was extremely stressed around you my friend in spite of all the smiles I flashed you.
Nevertheless, when summer started and no more had I been obliged to meet you, I no longer felt the urge to smack your face.
This year you committed another thing that I despise. You treated me like a child. Now I admit that whenever I am around people I act very childlike only I am not a child. I may be irresponsible at times, but I assure you I can take care of myself well enough without you pestering me as though you were my mother. I am happy now that I am staying on campus; I do not have my mother around to annoy me, so I beg of you to stop your acts immediately. In other words, if I wanted to have my mother with me this bad, I would have gone back home.
There is one more thing I would like to tell you before I conclude my letter. If we really are friends, then treat me like a friend. You and I and everybody else are not perfect, we all have sides that annoy our friends, but this thing that annoys me is that you consider me a friend but do not treat me so.
I will explain, I have known you for many years and we were practically inseparable during high school, and this year I made new friends as well. I joke around and tease my new friends all the time and they laugh at themselves and tease me back, but when I try to joke with you you take it very seriously and start lecturing me about how to treat people. In fact, now and then when I am bored, I joke around with people I do not know and they return the joke laughing, and they are strangers. If strangers treat me friendlier than you ever did my friend, what should I consider you?
Sincerely,
Your so called friend
Dear friend,
I hope that you have been doing well.
I have spent the previous year hiding my feelings towards you until this task became my deepest of secrets. However, I manged to hide them well enough until I realized this year that I am burdened with worse feelings towards you.
I hate you! It seems as though I have hated you for quite a long time without realizing, and before you get mad and throw this letter away, I would like to clarify that once upon a time I liked you and befriended you thinking how lucky I was to always be next to someone like you.
Unfortunately, life changes and so do people. Do not be angered my friend, for it is very likely that the one who changed was me.
I am aware that from your perspective I was the evil one and the one at false, but in this letter I will only be saying what happened from my point of view, so do not be intimidated.
There are many things that I hate but these two are the ones I despise: being forced to work with people, and being treated like a child.
Dear friend, you have done both of these things and you probably do not even know that you did.
The previous year you tried to force me to work with you despite my trying to refuse without hurting your feelings. I succeeded in both hurting your feelings and failing to make you leave me alone.
As a result, I decided to dodge your requests or make up excuses, and unexpectedly I managed to do so for a whole year. The outcome, however, was very unpleasant. Your constant requests were such a nuisance that I had been driven on edge countless times.
I never cried as much as I cried last year. I was extremely stressed around you my friend in spite of all the smiles I flashed you.
Nevertheless, when summer started and no more had I been obliged to meet you, I no longer felt the urge to smack your face.
This year you committed another thing that I despise. You treated me like a child. Now I admit that whenever I am around people I act very childlike only I am not a child. I may be irresponsible at times, but I assure you I can take care of myself well enough without you pestering me as though you were my mother. I am happy now that I am staying on campus; I do not have my mother around to annoy me, so I beg of you to stop your acts immediately. In other words, if I wanted to have my mother with me this bad, I would have gone back home.
There is one more thing I would like to tell you before I conclude my letter. If we really are friends, then treat me like a friend. You and I and everybody else are not perfect, we all have sides that annoy our friends, but this thing that annoys me is that you consider me a friend but do not treat me so.
I will explain, I have known you for many years and we were practically inseparable during high school, and this year I made new friends as well. I joke around and tease my new friends all the time and they laugh at themselves and tease me back, but when I try to joke with you you take it very seriously and start lecturing me about how to treat people. In fact, now and then when I am bored, I joke around with people I do not know and they return the joke laughing, and they are strangers. If strangers treat me friendlier than you ever did my friend, what should I consider you?
Sincerely,
Your so called friend
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