I don’t want to be close to you again. Our fighting knows no end. I want you to shatter the illusions I created, and go out and love someone else. Don’t love too much but don’t fail to love, either. Love prudently. Love realistically, just enough to treat someone well. Though you don’t love me anymore, relationship or not, I want you to be well now and always. I want you to love someone else, even if it hurts me. Part of me has been secretly hoping that good things do last forever, but it’s time to renounce that hope. I looked across the water, and as my tears fell, I told myself: “You can’t
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