It's like hope crashes down by the end of the letter..XD I don't think I've ever felt like this to anyone.

anyway, seriously though, i think it was well written.. =o It's like your whole personality screams from the words. thumbs up! :]

Hey there. This is really captivating. I think a lot of others could relate. And as you say down in your note at the bottom, you are a teenager - for us, nothing's ever too angsty. The world just sucks for us. (Lol. Such as high school. Ugh. Who invented that?)

However, I do think this letter is kind of sad. It's like you're giving up. But I agree totally with "I'm not going to change for you". I don't believe in changing for someone. Either they like you for who you are, or they can get stuffed. (Excuse my language. Hehe.) It's their loss.

I've known guys to do pretty weird and insulting things. A major reason I doubt I could ever give someone a "love" letter. :P They brought it on themselves.

Good work with this letter.

Some random searching led me to this, and I'm glad it did. I've been struggling with some stuff like this myself, lately. I've written countless drafts of letters that say some of the very same things in here. My situation is a little bit different - I moved schools, in small part to be rid of him - because we're not even friends. But this is so perfect for how so many other teens -like you and myself - feel during these awkward years. I congratulate you for your courage to post this, because I myself can't. Maybe I will, though.
Except I'll leave out his name.
And put more big words into it, like you did.
Anyway. I seriously teared up, reading this. Even though I don't know you or anything, I'm glad you're over him. Goodness knows that these things, these crushes, are beastly and sharp.
But isn't that what makes them so wonderful?
Really well-written and heartfelt. And just a tad bit angsty - but then again, aren't all teenagers?

aw, wow.

This made me cry. I've felt exactly that way. I'm glad you decided to post it!

-xxstarryeyedxx

lol...exactly how I felt last year.

Once again awesome writing.

I really loved how the letter was written similar to a diary entry, and also like it was sent to someone.

Great job !

PS: Do you mind terribly if I use this idea ?
reply with an answer please =]

This is soo realistic, and pretty much sums up my crush situation... Great work! :D

God. Why do I want to send this (or something like it, because I would never want to pass something off as my own writing when it wasn't)? I don't even like the person who would be the recipient, not really. But it just describes how I felt (feel?) almost perfectly. Why am I writing semi-personal things in a review to someone I don't even know? Well, that's why it's anonymous (a friend has access to my account, and she might see the review).
Okay, I'm sure you didn't want to read any of my ramblings. To get to the point, that was a very interesting letter, and I'm glad I read it. The end.

i love this letter..it kinda reminds me of me in my mellodramatic phase except i was probaly a little more angsty..just a little more, but anyways i love how u ended it with a disclaimer so orgnl :) 5stars

Mhmm. This reminds me of.. me.
But in a sense I'm more in fear of disappointment than losing my pride.. Though losing my pride does seem as horrible as losing everything I have. Well anyways.. This also reminds me of the situation I'm sort of in. And like you, I know I'd get over him. But when you're unfortunately crushing on someone who has a girlfriend which just happens to be your friend, you can't help but feel like you wish he would just like you back. Just easy as that. And of course I tell my friends I'm not jealous of her, I'm probably half way lying.

..Wow, how'd I come off to that? Anyways... Thanks for posting this. It was very well written.. and it made me think unlike the usual trash I read sometimes.. heh. Well yeah. Good job .. and even though he might not be the one.. I hope you find him cause truth be told, I don't really like unhappy endings. Haha, wow I sound so... romantic crazed in a sense.. Sorry. Well woah, enough of my ramblings. You're a great writer =)

hey, maybe i should do the same.

i was always told that writing a letter would always release those hidden feelings that have been supressed all those years but for me, i don't even have love, likes... i have more of an brief infatuation for boys- i hope it's just a stage.

but strangely, there's been a mishap and there's this one malfunction- good gawd, i'm digressing.

anyway, i just wanted to say i loved the letter.

i remember when u showed this to me and debated the locker thing. looking back its weird. esp with all that's happened since then. congrats on moving on. i shouldn't stayed that way too :P well i'll see you tomorrow. or teusday if we're lucky.

Nicely structured and eloquently expressed. My compliments. I really love the way you write and hope to get as good at it one day as you are. Well, in English, anyway. I’m learning to write in English.
About the contents, though… my first thought was – isn’t it better to regret things you’ve done then things you haven’t done or have deliberately missed? Regret is always lurking just around the corner, you know, usually surfacing its ugly head when you really don’t want to see it.
Isn’t it more satisfactory to be able to say, well, at least I tried to do things to get what I want; pity it didn’t work out but I didn’t just stand around drooling on my dream like an incompetent fool. Go me. Or something.
Pride as you described it is in most cases just a convenient and sorta sublimed excuse for insecurity, inflexibility and plain fear in the face of the unknown. No one is shielded from their first jump in the dark, head first. Life is nasty like that, and I don’t think your heroin will be able to avoid it, not eternally.
So I don’t agree with your heroine; she might want to rethink her options. Isn’t her pride actually getting in the way of starting to live her life? She’s quite young, and it ain’t stay way that for very long. Body will mature, and wrinkles will come faster then you can say aging gracefully. And when she’d look back in, say, ten, twenty years to the time of her prime, will there be fun, emotions, pain, discoveries, a great start or just imperturbable pride dominating her very safe life?
On the other hand, who am I to speak? I, a boring grownup these days, don’t remember all that well how it was to be an angsty teenager. And I really don’t think I was all that angsty anyway, so you may securely disregard my ramblings.

That was the most intresting not sent letter ive ever read great job
:)

When I read this letter, I thought it was amazing. Almost every line described me and how I usually act with guys. My two favourite lines (that i liked b/c it describes me so well) in your letter were, 1) "I would be wary of being clingy, and thus never initiate contact- you would have to start everything, from grabbing my hand to asking me out. I’m too afraid of rejection..." and 2)"I’m too proud to want you, and I don’t like you enough for it to overwhelm my pride." I'm just like you, in that I have too much pride.. sometimes i think its too much to be considered healthy.
Right now, a guy I liked 2 years back admitted to me he liked me and still does. Then slowly all the "like" i had for him came rushing back. I noticed that I let my pride control me..no matter what. He'll say nice, sweet things and I'll just be like..."um..ya..thanks." and I won't say what I really want to say and I hate that more than anything. I wish I had it in me to just say how I feel. I've noticed that me acting the way I do might gives him the impression that I don't like him. He's admitted that he hates that I never call and that he always has to be the one to do that. It's not that I don't like him or don't want to call him (i really do)...its just I don't want to be one of those girls that would call him all the time. But I understand where he's coming from. I just hope my pride doesn't get the best of me. Pride is good..but too much just seems to complicate my life.
Sorry you had to read that. just got off topic. You're letter was great, better than anything I could've written. And all those emotions you described, I assure you, you aren't the only one who feels that way. Thanks for writing this, it made my day. :D