To the friends I lost this year,

I want to start off by thanking you for the chance to get to know you. We had a real good run, it was brief but it was good. I have good and bad memories with all of you and I'm sure we knew this friendship wasn't one that was meant to last.

I am not mad at you and I never will be. Even though life got in the way and we all changed, I will never blame you for the kind of people you are. We had different hobbies, different ideas and different intentions and that is okay.

"People are people and sometimes we change our minds," and that's exactly what I did. I decided that being friends with you all wasn't benefiting me as much as I wanted it to. I did what I had to do to improve my own life.

I also want to tell you that I'm sorry. I'm sorry I just stopped answering calls and texts without an explanation. I'm sorry that I avoid you at social events and I'm sorry that I never gave you a reason why I couldn't be around you anymore.

The truth is that I have changed and ultimately I grew up. It was very hard to be around you all because I felt it was all play and no work, nobody took anything seriously. Also the jokes that you made sometimes, I didn't find them funny. There was a time when everything was fun, but after a while it became toxic.

I hope you understand why I had to get myself out of that situation. I also hope you all will accept my apology. Thank you for the memories, I will hold onto them forever, but it's time for me to do my own thing and focus on myself, school and my job.

I wish you all the best in the new year and I hope to see you succeed in life.