silent all these years
3:49 p.m.

To Us All,

I come here, read these words of yours and come to the realization...

Most of these unsent letters - these unsent feelings and hopes and pains - are to lovers or friends. After we have split.

And it makes me wonder...

If these are the people that we should trust the most - the lovers, the friends - the people who we feel a strong enough connection with to make them our closest friends and lovers - then why is it that we cannot trust them enough - or trust ourselves enough with them...

to actually send these words to them?

And what is the harm in saying these words? What is the harm in saying, "Look, you might not want to hear this, but I need to say it." Don't we have the right to express our feelings, to release our pain or share our hearts? And if we do have the right, why don't we exercise it? Why don't we say, "Nobody's stopping me from saying this but myself, so here it is, I'm letting it out."

And then...

Just tell them.

Because, as much as it heals us at times to write these things, there's a much better chance for reconciliation, if we were to actually say these things.

So say it. Open your mouth wide and let the words out. Tell him he hurt you. Tell her you miss her. Tell them you're sorry. Tell them you forgive them.

Chances are, they might be sitting there, thinking the very same things we are. And imagine if neither of us said anything to one another. Ever. Someday, years and years from now we will wonder, "What if I had just told them?" And they will sit there, years and years from now, wondering the very same thing. And we will curse ourselves by saying, "If only I'd said something when I had the chance."

Never truly realizing... we've always had the chance. We just didn't take it.

Except here. We took the chance here, with our words.

Only they - the friends, the lovers - couldn't hear them loud enough.

Open your mouth wide and let it out. They're listening.

Love,

Me

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