Thank you for showing me what love truly is and how wonderfully blissful it can be.

We had that fairytale love story. Best friends falling in love and staying together through the transition to college and all of its obstacles. We never fought and rarely misunderstood each other. I truly believed that nothing could feel better than the love we share.

You will always hold a special piece of my heart and I will never forget the things you have done and continue to do for me. I cannot thank you enough for showing me that I am more than enough and I hope that I was able to do the same for you.

As painful as it has been to let you go, I will always look back on our time together with happy memories. I may never truly understand why you had to let me go, but I have always been a supporter of you and valued your happiness above my own.

I know you always had a hard time believing in yourself. I hope if you have learned anything from your relationship with me it is that you are an incredible person and you deserve great things in life, including unconditional love.

Letting go is never easy, but despite my denial, we are growing in different directions. Even though I thought we could still accomplish our goals with each other, sometimes things have to be done on our own. I need to follow my passions and you need to find yours.

I do not think any differently of you. You are still the most caring guy I have ever known. You will always be my high school sweetheart and I will inevitably compare others to you. You showed me that I deserve to be loved for who I am despite my imperfections. You set a high standard for the next guy. You showed me respect and generosity among many other things.

Thank you for always encouraging me to do what is best for me even if that meant it was not best for you. I hope that now you can do what is best for you.

No matter how much of me hopes for the possibility of us again, I am slowly realizing that holding on to what might be is toxic. If our paths cross again then it can be reevaluated but for now I have to learn to let go and put our effortless relationship in the past. It is no longer a reality, but instead a bunch of memories that I am forever grateful for having shared with you.

Just because our relationship came to an end, does not change your importance to me. I cannot let our friendship go without a fight. I do not care what people may think of me for staying friends with my first love. I can learn to love somebody else, but I cannot and will not lose my friend.

Friends First.