December 2011
34 posts
The Reason
Dear Parker,
I’m sorry I don’t spend much time with you anymore. The reason why is because I have lots of different stuff to play with, like Legos and 3Ds.
Sincerely,
Your friend, age 8
Good Enough For You
Dear Dad,
I am sorry for all the confusion I have put you through. It has been so hard that you left mom and now live with your girlfriend. It felt like you abandoned me and didn’t even try. I felt like I failed you and did not do good enough as a daughter. Like half my life is a lie and there’s nothing I can do. I miss you, I miss how you used to be. The father-daughter relationship we had....
Is this it?
Dear husband,
I love you, I hate you. I love you for all the sweet, thoughtful things you do for me; coffee in the morning, going to work everyday to support us while I try to find full time work. But I hate you for your nightly drunkenness and blindness towards all I do for you. I hate that you don’t hold me in the same regard as everyone else, which makes me feel less a person. I hate the...
Strength and Shield
Dear All-who-define-me-by-weight,
First of all, let me tell you that I am more than just a weight, a number, a pound, a kilogram. I love my body, and God loves me, big thighs and all.
So thank you everyday for reminding me of what’s important.
Rahab, age 31
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love Sick
Dear Clayton,
It’s been a long time since we’ve talked and I still miss you every waking day. I wish I could tell you how much I cared about you and how much you meant to me. My feelings for you never went away after all this time. I wish things wouldn’t have turned out this way. I would give anything to talk to you again but I don’t know whether that’s ever going to happen. I...
Really Be Gone
Daddy,
Hi. I need you so much right now, but when you were here I never realized all that. I’m sorry for all the birthdays/Christmases/Thanksgivings I missed. I didn’t think you would ever really be gone. It’s crazy because I knew one day it would all be over, but I didn’t believe it. I love you so much.
I saw Granny on Mother’s day. She’s doing good. She misses you...
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To Study Your Face
Dear Ryan,
If I had known on Christmas Eve two years ago that it would be the last time I’d kiss you before we broke up, I would have held on for as long as I could. I would have told you that you made me so happy, and that I’ve never felt more alive than I did the first time you told me you loved me. I would have laid there with you for just five minutes longer, just long enough to...
Not The One For You
Sweetest P,
It has been so long. It has been so long I heard from you, since I ran into you, since I made you smile. It has been so long but I feel you around.
I might have already said some of this before, but it’s really hard to let go. What we had was so little, but it meant the world to me. Today, almost after four years, I realize that unknowingly I messed the best five months of my living. A...
Making People Laugh
Dear Popsi,
I feel like you’re everywhere. Everywhere I look there’s something that reminds me of you, and the things you taught me. Thank you for always being there to make me laugh and smile, no matter else what was going on in my life.
I hope you know how much I love you, and how much every little thing you’ve done for our whole family really means to me. You really are, and always will be, the...
Something You Should Know
Dear Stephen,
I never stopped loving you. I just stopped saying it out loud.
Devi, age 23
Sad
Dear Grandma Anita,
I didn’t get to thank you for all the things you’ve done for me before you passed away. I loved how you never forgot my birthday. Every single year, you would get me a card saying how much you loved me and how you can’t believe how much I’ve grown. But now that you’re gone, Grandpa’s sad, my mom and dad are sad, my sisters are sad, and...
More Than a Teacher
Dear Joseph,
Words cannot begin to describe how much I miss you. A lot of people might say the love I felt for you was wrong, since you were my teacher and my senior of almost 20 years, but I truly had an absolutely undying and irrational love for you. I know it’s odd for me to feel the way I did (and still do) and I figured no one would understand but I loved you for almost two years. Ever...
Part Of Our Lives
Dear Dad,
It has been many years since you stopped being a father to me. I am now turning 19 next month and you stopped being a father when I was 7 years old. Though I still talked to you and visited you until I was in grade 8, it was never the same.
I understand that the death of your mother was the event that happened to trigger your downward spiral. I know if my mother passed away, I would...
What It Means to be Scared
Cole,
I hate you. I hate you for telling me that you’d be here, for making me think that you’d stand by my side through it all. I hate you for lying to me about so much. I hate you for abandoning your child just because it’s too much for you and you’re “scared”. I hate you because one day my baby is going to ask me about you, and that is a conversation I feel a...
Anything To Go Back
Valerie,
Even though things didn’t work out, I just want you to know that I still think about you every day. I don’t know why I fell so hard for you if you are the complete opposite of the girl that I want. I just want to tell you that this is you’re fault, and even though you tried to play me, I’d give anything to go back and have things as they were before.
Mando, age 20
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely...”
– Marilyn Monroe
'Til Kingdom Come
Dear C,
“How far would you go to reverse a decision you made a long time ago?”
That’s what I ask myself every day. Every day without you is a day without air. I can feel my muscles tense up when someone says your name, I can feel my heartbeat cease when I see our old pictures. It’s like I’m missing a huge part of me, like my heart has been ripped from my chest. For a...
What am I Supposed to do?
Dear Eric,
I miss you! I wish we could have had more years together. Twenty was not enough!
I’m so sorry that I didn’t want to go to dinner the weekend before your accident. Sometimes when I am tired I can be really hard to get along with and I wanted so much to go see a movie. When you didn’t want to see the movie with me, that hurt my feelings, so I acted mean about about going...
More Than a Funeral
Dear Uncle Alfred,
I really miss you. Everybody else in the family does, too, like your wife, Aunt Rosemary. I think going to your funeral was worth it. Not just to miss a day of school, but to go to church and care for you and appreciate what everybody was saying about you. We could have played the drums with each other and talk about what we both like, and more. I’ll miss you forever and...
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in...”
– John Wesley
Money Now Meaningless
Dear Cousin-
I just found out that you died. Via Facebook, no less. I am so sorry that I stopped speaking to you. It just never occurred to me that you might not be around anymore. In hindsight, it seems petty and small to cut you out of my life over $300. And now you’re gone forever, and that money seems so meaningless.
They said you were found in your bed. It looks like you just laid down...
Brings Me Back To You
My first love,
I love you, and will always love you. We didn’t work out, and when I hear our song, I cry. I still have our pictures in my top drawer, underneath a pile of old newspaper clippings and magazines. On random days, I’ll go through this drawer and stumble upon these pictures, and it brings me back. I always thought you were the one, but I realize now that that can’t...
Imagine That
Dear seven year old me,
I know you are going through so much right now. It’s going to get much worse before it gets better, but I promise, things will get better. Try to recognize the good in mom; she is a good-hearted person behind all her addictions. When she hurts you, it’s not really her. I know it’s hard to understand now, but you will some day. Make sure to let her know you...
One Day
Dear Father,
I am sorry that I have never been the son that you wanted. We never got along and I refused to open up to you. I built up a wall blocking you from ever reaching me. I always saw you in the wrong light. I didn’t understand who you actually were and what you have done for me. You sacrificed your life for me, knowing I had nothing in return. Now I see that you are one of the most...
Time Machine
Hello Best Friend,
I miss you more than words could ever describe. Life without you is beyond hard. There is so much I wish I could share with you and yet I still find myself getting mad that you’re no longer here. Losing your best friend at 19 years old was never what I expected to deal with. I would never wish this upon anyone. I find myself now not ever asking details when something tragic...
On One Knee
Dear Michael,
When we were seven years old, running through the schoolyard, playing games, you propped down on one knee and proposed to me. I said no, but every inch of my being was dying to say yes. If you had asked me now, I would have said yes. I never thought it would be over so soon. I never thought we’d grow up. But we did grow up. And we reached a fork in the road and went our...
If My World Fell Apart
Dearest,
You are my life. I didn’t think anyone else went through what I did, but I found you.
You give me the strength to make it through each day, and make me hate myself a little less each and every day.
I love you. They say we’re young and don’t know. But I know what this is. I’m no longer afraid of love, or being close to someone.
You’re perfect, even though you...
Follow Your Dreams
Dear Dad,
I love you so much. I can’t put into words how proud I am of you for all the things you have accomplished. I know right now you are going through a difficult time losing your job and having to support our family. I know it was hard for you to see me leave for college after 18 years of being so close. You were always the one I could talk to and argue about things with. Everyone says...
Come for Forgiveness
Poonam,
I’m truly very sorry about the past couple of months. You are such a great person. You fill me up with passion, will and energy to achieve. You came into my life when I needed you so much. All this while you took all the pain to try and make it work with an aggressive jerk like me. I am so thankful for all of that.
I wanted to hold on to you so badly, but what I didn’t realize was I...
Had Enough
Gil, I QUIT!! Chandlee, age 17
Full Appreciation
Dear Pop,
Losing you was harder on me than I ever imagined. You were the first family member who passed away where I could really understand what I had lost, and it made me mature on the spot. I could never really remember crying at the loss of someone the way I did for you. To this day, you mean an incredible amount to me. I loved when you would tell me stories and jokes, and when you’d...
Unrequited Love
Dear Lily,
I wish I could say this to you and make you understand where I’m coming from. When we were together the world seemed like a good place. That everything in it, every aspect of the world, was right. You loved me first, and at first it caught me so off guard and scared me a little. You told me that you would forever and I believed you. I believed you so much that I tore down my...