Write a Letter You Cannot Send (Read the Rules!)

[anathema]

dear m______,

pls pls ple ase dont be straight i love u

[abandoned-account123]

dear ____,

my gosh I try to talk to you about something serious and you just laugh like I just said a hilarious joke. I tried to tell you who I am now and that I have found myself and you just laughed. Why am I not surprised? You don't even know what I'm talking about.
__ is basically the only one who understands what I'm trying to tell them. But not even they aren't taking it seriously - I need a mature friend who will support me. I feel young to identify as catkin but whatever. It's not like I'll get any useful advice/support from anyone until I'm much, much older. Tumblr feel like better family than you guys. At least I can trust them.

sincerely,
a small, frustrated cat girl



dear anyone who cares,

My life is basically a trainwreck.
Everyone sees me as something else.
My friends see me as a little playful girl who is great at reading.
My family sees me as basically the same thing.
They are completely oblivious to my emotions. Sometimes I want to cry myself to sleep, but I know I have to be strong. That what everyone expects, right? Might as well keep that act up, no one's going to understand me anytime soon.

sincerely,
me.

[ryan!]

Dear friends who should stop making fun of me,
Having good grammar is good. I'm proud of my good grammar, and ability to know when and were to correct it. I'M NOT A GEEK OR A NERD JUST BECAUSE I'M GOOD AT THIS KIND OF THING. As well as being able to spell/knowing things in general, so chill. Get off my back on all this stuff and like me for who I am, not who you want me to be.

grammar girl

Dear K,
I really shouldn't be, but I'm in love. Don't hate be because I'm honest. Just let me smile at you, and hold my gaze for longer than a second, would you? It's not my fault your whole BODY/MIND/SOUL is perfect. It just is. Let this take us somewhere.
ANYWHERE.

Girl who wants you to look at her a little more.

[Noni Gailin Ayrenin~]

Dear step-dad,

Until you can provide me with genuine love and affection, I don't owe you anything.
Mkay? ^^

"I've provided you with everything you have!"
Yes, and while objects are nice, I'm not a materialistic person, so in the long run, they don't mean much.

"You're now 5 months behind on rent."
That's cute, but I don't remember even agreeing that there would be rent to be paid; you forced that on me.
AND, I've been living in this house for 14 years now without a problem, so why is rent suddenly a thing for you?

"You need a job."
And you need to stop coming home at noon just to play games while you work. And to stop being an alcoholic. And stop with other things I can't mention here.

*sigh*
Sure, you've given me a lot of the objects in my life. Sure, you've got a well paying job you've been at for over 20 years. Sure, you married my mother 14 years ago.
BUT
None of that will ever make me care for, or respect you. Ever.
No man that pins his step-daughter (My little sister) to a dryer over a TABLET deserves any more respect than a criminal.

---Noni, your step son that would rather you just stop existing.

[cat&bear]

S.,
I'm going to quit my job today. I've been there for roughly two months, and it's just not a good fit for me. I love the people I work with for the most part, but the only manager I knew how to talk to just left, corporate rules are going to get a lot stricter, and working late at night isn't working for me. Plus I'm only getting 8 hours a week, and only on friday and saturday nights- this isn't worth it. Only being there twice a week feels more like an inconvenience than a job. My first real job, and I'm leaving so soon. I just can't do it. I'll work this weekend and next weekend, but I don't intend on coming back after that. The nights they want me to work are not good for me. All of my friends are still in high school, so I'm going to be asking for friday/ saturdays off for dances and performances. Plus- nothing happens during the week for high schoolers. Even once business picks up, I'll just we working more late nights- I'm not a late night person, and that's not going to be fun when the semester gets more intense and I'm not sleeping much. Also- I have to work holidays with this job. Cant do anything about that. I want to spend this last for certain thanksgiving with my family- which means traveling that day.
I'm going to quit my job today. I'm going to have to tell my manager that I'm going to be gone and that I know that I won't be hired back. I'm very well aware. I need a job, but it's really important for me to be free from this one. Maybe knowing I won't have this one anymore- I'll be a lot more efficient in my job search to get a new one.

oh god. is this the right decision?

C.

[.bookbound.]

Dear W,

this would be really awkward and annoying if I sent it to you, so here I go.
I adore the character you drew for me. I sincerely hope you reach your goal of $1000 soon, and I'm glad I could help out with that. At first, I'll admit, I was kind of skeptical at first whether I really liked it or not. It was nice, but the pattern is pretty complicated and the Lady Gaga-ish hair was a bit odd (even though it resembles a pumpkin; extremely clever and awesome on your part). But--I love it so much; OF COURSE I'll go back a hundred times to something like that--after a while of looking back at it, I love my lion-fennec fox hybrid character. She'll definitely find a place in my collection of babies.
I CANNOT wait until you mail her and she gets here.
Sincerely,
an artsy piggy

[wonpil]

dear d,
i miss you so so so so much

[offline.]

Dear Myself,

Why can't you just be like everyone else? You should be beautiful. You should be thin. Your hair should be long and thick and curly and amazing. But guess what, your freaking ugly. Your SO annoying, too. Just keep your mouth shut. Seriously, you think that guy might like you? He doesn't. That whole table is just pitying you because you have no friends. Zero. Zip. And you think pressuring your parents into moving away will fix it? A new place would just be worse. You would be the ugly, fat, annoying loner whose desperate for friends. And why can't you talk in front of the class without freaking out? Seriously, you almost sobbed up there. Maybe if you did something with your life instead of sitting in your room all day you wouldn't be such a freaking loner. I hate you.

Sincerely, Myself

Dear Mom,

Do you really think yelling at me about my grades is going to help anything? That's just going to shove me right into a stress filled hell. Maybe try acting nice and calm and ill actually try instead of feeling like a huge disappointment.

Sincerely, YOUR DAUGHTER

[noodle cat]

dear sam,
my lovely boyfriend, the day has come.
the dance is here and im more then excited to spend the night with you, dressed up and having a great time. my nails are done, my hair put into an up-do, my dress layed out and the jewlry i decided to wear is polished. i'm so ready.
i love you.
-emily

[atychiphobia]

To the kids in my grade last year,
I'd like to know how it felt to know you were spreading rumours behind someone's back, just because they were new and different. I know how I felt. I acted like someone else so it would stop. It didn't. You didn't have to laugh every time I got your name wrong. You didn't have to pretend like I was the 'weird kid'. Now I am shy, I have a lot of self awareness. Too much. But worst of all I didn't remember what it was like to have a truely good friend.
Now that we've all moved schools I have friends. They hug each other and go crazy if the other ones not there, but because of what you did to me and because of how you made me feel, I don't like the hugging and going crazy, I don't like the food sharing and showing each other what we're doing. You made me like this. You made me unknown to all kind of friendship. I'd like to see you this way.
-the girl you bullied