I started writing for Odyssey because I needed to release my feelings about my former best friend and I growing apart.

A year later, a repeat happened. I didn't lose a best friend this time. I walked away from one because I was starting to see how much they used me. Friends are about quality, not quantity. I guess you were all about quantity.

I focused too much of my life on you, and that's my fault. I'm sorry that I fell for the words you told me once again. Actions do speak louder than words.

Now, everything that has happened over this past year is starting to make sense. It's funny because you always said that I was lying, but in the end, the only person lying was you.

However, I have to thank you. Thank you for showing me what NOT to look for in a friend.

One can say that's the end of an era. "People come into your life either because you have to teach them a lesson, or they will teach you a lesson." Well, lesson learned.

"When you meet the right person, you know it. You can't stop thinking about them. They're your best friend. And your soulmate. You can't wait to spend the rest of your life with them. No one and nothing else can compare." We both know where this quote is from: "How I Met Your Mother."

You're not my best friend anymore, so I guess everything else that comes with that saying is gone too.

I am going to stay out of your life because you didn't even want me there in the first place. Just remember what I told you: "How can a relationship have trust if it's built on lies? Because that's the only truth they know."

Even though everyone would yell at me for saying this, everyone has the right to be happy. So, you should be too.

Since we're not friends anymore, I can finally give you advice without you thinking it's something more. Next time, listen to your heart and not your head. I know you think going along with your head is the safer route, but it will also devastate you more.

Give your heart a chance one day. Otherwise, you are always going to be living with many "what ifs" and regrets.

It was an emotional rollercoaster for me, but according to you, all that happened to you was that you "lost a friend."