I’ll never change to make you happy, but I promise to constantly work on me so that I can continue to be a better, wiser version of the me that you fell in love with.

I know I don’t always say how I’m feeling because I have a nasty habit of keeping my heart guarded, but I hope you realize how much I care about you.

It’s simply acknowledging the other person. It’s learning what they need and wanting to give it to them and receiving what you need in return. It’s a partnership, an equal give and take. It’s communication, it’s respect, it’s trust.

Dear Best Friend, I think you deserve the world, yet somehow I don’t think you always see that. But I want you to know, I often find my own self wondering what I did to deserve you.

To the people we loved and the people who couldn’t love us. To the ones who broke our hearts and the ones that got away. To the ones who loved us and the ones who healed us.

Water takes on the image of the world without comprising itself. It remains.

We are only human darling.

“Though I hoped otherwise, I’ve found that time does not heal all wounds. The phrase neglects to share that a cut with enough depth will certainly scar.”

I dropped the pages like they were fire and rubbed my hands across my face. What was going on? Why was she sending these to me? Why hadn’t she called me back? I grabbed my phone and dialled Brianna’s number with shaking fingers.

I always miss you. I wonder if you also do.