dear —-,
you do me wrong. i treated u with overfilled fullfilment, paused my life and made me give up friends. You left me cold and lonely because of your bipolar disorder, that’s not an excuse but i’d rather accept that than knowing i’m not wanted. Now after a month, you say ‘you love me?’ this isn’t a game. if it is i’m not playing but i have a feeling that i am on the court unwillingly. i accepted your offer to be with you again but i never called again, not until a month have passed, which made it awkward but it’s worth it, you say you still love me? but how could you? you’ve hurt me and i’m hurting myself by thinking about you, talking to you. i don’t know what to do. i still love you but i can’t let you go.
To all the people on forums,
Be kind.
Really, you have no idea who you are talking to. They could be on a precipice, they could have lost a loved one. They are on forums for crying out loud. That ought to tell you something. They are inside, on their computers, talking to strangers for any number of reasons, but they are there with you, and not out and about.
And please, if you see someone with 49 comments to their posts, they are fine. A social butterfly. Answer the person with zero. Don’t let it deter you that no one else had the guts to answer. It could make their freakin’ day.
Delve. Find something nice to say. Offer a smiley face, with a big grin. A hug. Something. This is a difficult world to take sometimes. You don’t want to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. Or the one that sees something painful and turns away.
You can choose to make it a better place.
Dear Dear Anonymous,
We’ve been together a while now. Things are usually quiet, but that’s fine for me. I’m glad we could work together to be an outlet of anonymous confessions, letters, and what ever else people like to send in.
I should have saved this for some anniversary or another, but I don’t care much for them.
Ta,
The Post Master
Dear Mom and Dad,
I am going pretty damn good without you around. Get over it.
Sincerely,
Daughter
Dear Online World,
i type in lowercase for a reason.
shut up and stop calling me lazy.
-sub
Dear Husband,
Yes I love you. Yes I am annoyed with you. YES I have taken my medication. Yes it annoys me that you think I’m pissed off because my medication is messed up. Couldn’t it just be that I’m pissed off because you’re being a dink right now?!
Sincerely,
Pissed off wife
To My Cat:
To My Cat, now that she is gone,
It’s been a couple of months now, and I still miss you. There is a huge cat-shaped hole in my heart. It’s like, no matter how many other cats I know, or live with, none of them will ever be connected to me the way that you were.
For sixteen years you were a part of me, even when we had to live apart.
And now, I wonder if you are angry with me. Baby you were so sick. I couldn’t leave you like that. You barely got out of your bed. Your kidneys had gone. And yet I found you in the bathtub that time, meowing triumphantly, one day after you fell trying to jump into your favorite spot. (I’m still not sure why you loved the bathtub so much.) You wanted love…and tuna the day afterwards, but only in your bed. That was all you would eat in the end.
I still see you out of the corner of my eye. I still reach for that connection when I pick up another cat. I miss you so much, and I hope that you understand.
I love you Baby-Cat,
Your Mum
Dear Owner of the Hello Kitty Shop Which Once Employed Me:
Is it my imagination, or did you fire me for not being cute enough? Or, was it just because I’m not Asian? That was the impression I got from certain things you said.
By the way, your products are cheap, easily broken pieces of crap. Did you know that? We constantly had to take exchanges for things that had broken immediately after they had been sold. I’m sort of sorry I put so much effort into being an assistant manager for you.
Signed,
Disgruntled
Dear Uterus,
I don’t understand you.
I know I’ve been treating you write for months now. Healthy eating, exercise, cleanliness, and even getting off the birth control pill because it can aggravate my PCOS. You went and had a cycle naturally which means I’ve been doing the right things.
So what are you doing today? You’re acting like it’s time of the month again when it’s not for a couple weeks yet. There’s no way I should be feeling all yucky because of pregnancy – you don’t start feeling yucky this early.
So what are you doing? Did I eat the wrong thing? I didn’t go to the gym today so it’s not that… What did I do wrong?
I don’t think I’ll ever understand…
Sincerely,
The Owner
Dear Large Food/Drink Companies,
What is wrong with sugar?
Oh, I know that some people can’t have sugar for various reasons, but most of those folks can’t have High Fructose Corn Syrup either, and that never stopped you from using that ingredient. Did it ever occur to you that there are people out there who are allergic to those fake sweeteners you so adore? People that get sick if you change ingredients without warning?
Apparently not, since this has happened with my favorite drink and my favorite gum so far. Now I have to check the ingredients list every time I buy something, even if it’s the same thing each time.
On the subject of additives, what is the deal with MSG? Why does it have to be in everything? Are you trying to raise the sodium level in everything, or are you just trying to make me sick? You don’t even label things properly sometimes. You just sneak it in under “Natural Seasonings” or some such obfuscatory term.
Stop trying to poison me!
Signed,
Buying Organic Now
