thank you for letting me go.

to whom it may concern,

i have recently come to realize how happy i am that we are no longer friends. i did not realize that over the last few years our friendship was a weight around my neck getting heavier and heavier and literally dragging me down. i think i could have easily drown. i really feel like now i can have a good life and succeed. i feel so light. you become the energy that surrounds you, and thank god, i have gotten your energy, and a few others, away from me.
i also realize now that there was not really anything left for me to be hanging around for. i got to where the only time i was really comfortable around you, and enjoyed being around you was when i was drinking. i really don't drink anymore, but when we were together i always felt like i had to. i always assumed it was because you were drinking, but that is not it. i now know it was because we no longer have anything in common. i didn't have anything to say to you if i didn't have a few drinks. i don't know why i was still hanging on, because the person i loved was already dead and gone. i guess i was just still in mourning. honey, today i am taking off that black dress.
our friendship was something i would have held on to for forever, because i did love you, and i would have drown trying to save you. i am so glad this story has a different ending. thank you for letting me go.

sincerely,
me