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

[Foxghost]

Dear L,
Instead of preventing me from doing anything, you could have given me a headsup and I would have fixed the problem. But now you've given me a severe anxiety attack so bad I'm actually about to go throw up right now. Over something stupid. Thanks.
-RM

[Demyx and the Doctor]

Dear JA:

Yeah, we all know the story about wanting to be closer to my family. Too far away, not enough support, wanting V to grow up closer to her family, yadda yadda yadda. But honestly? The real reason I left is because the business I left was not the business that hired me seven years ago. The business I hired onto back then offered good pay. Great benefits. Generous PTO. Competent leadership. Even a pension plan, for God's sake.

I suppose, when I heard about the holiday bonuses that had stopped just the year before, I should have twigged on that things were on the downslide. Ditto for the annual employee recognition parties that I only ever heard about, never attended. (Remember my five-year anniversary? I got handed a catalog from which I could choose some Very Special commemorative gift like an infinity scarf or a USB-powered desk fan.) The annual Christmas party dinner-dance was the first thing I actually got to experience that was taken away, supposedly because the company could only afford either the party or our annual raises that year. Then our raises got smaller and smaller - and while we're on that subject, would you like to hear about the toll it took on my mental health to try my hardest every single year only to be told that my performance was getting worse and worse, all so you could pretend I actually deserved the pathetic excuse for a raise you'd already decided to give me no matter how well I did? Or, for that matter, would you like to hear about how KS's classmates were earning more starting out at other companies than I was earning with seven years' seniority?

I know a lot of people are going to say that this downslide started with the merger. It did not. This place was going down the tubes anyway; now it's just going down the tubes under different management. Different upper management, anyhow. You know when I think the downslide in our department really started? When DF got promoted to Vice President, and you - pathetic, power-hungry, incompetent you - were promoted to department manager in her place. DF might have been hard to get along with, but by God, she knew how to run the place. If only she'd taught you how - assuming you ever had the capacity to learn. And then AB, with her sincere smile and sincere disinterest in her staff and her utter lack of self-awareness, got promoted to your old job. Thank god G got promoted to hers; at least G had some idea what she was doing.

Now look at who's in positions of power. I'm not sure the current lot of supervisors (G and DS excluded) has seven years worth of bench experience between them. KB worked for the company for maybe one year before quitting, and that was when I was a new hire; six years later she gets hired back and apparently that's enough to justify promoting her within a few months. Y was never a bench tech. M and KF had only ever worked in one area of the department before being promoted to supervise people whose jobs they didn't know how to do themselves. And DS...well, to be fair, she has a few years' bench experience, but have you ever actually tried to work with her for any length of time? I did for three years, and getting away from her was justification enough for switching shifts. AS was JM's assistant for two years; she was more qualified than anyone else in the building to take over her position after she retired, and now she gets to be assistant to someone who hasn't even been with the company for two years because she questioned AB's judgment once and AB has never forgiven her!

Long story short, the place is a mess and getting worse, it's very much your fault and the fault of the people you chose to put in power, and I sleep easier at night knowing I'll never have to see you again and won't have to go down with the ship you're busy sinking. Send my regards to KS, AC, and AP, along with my hopes that they find better jobs soon - they're too good for you anyway.

-The other AB

[Lostfairy]

Dear Dad,
I’m already self conscious of how I look and hate getting pictures taken of me. You didn’t have to pull out your phone and pretend to take pictures of me, randomly.
I know I’m ugly but I feel like you make fun of how I look. It’s kind of rude... </3
Love you, though.
-your youngest daughter

[Swirlshine]

Dear L,
You are NOT and I have never heard such an unbelieveable lie. Trust me, no one has ever seen you like that and they never will - I see you as 100% the opposite, and no, not just because I want to be nice, and I have plenty others who would back me up. Trust me on this. Love ya <33

~S

[bookshelf]

dear me three years ago,
hey you. stop. you know those people that like you? keep them, damn it, please keep them, at least try to keep r and k, hell, r still kept asking you if you were doing soccer, cross country, track, whatever, even after you quit. you kept saying no and she always seemed a little disappointed. you could have been friends with her. it's too late now.
don't let them go
don't just forget to respond to them
it wasn't their fault you're not friends anymore
don't. you. dare. quit soccer
it's the only thing that keeps you tethered to people
i don't care if you start hating sports. don't lie about your heel. don't do it, just don't.
you're going to regret everything.
if you don't quit soccer it's going to save you a lot,, of pain. all those people you were
friends with in soccer? guess what. they're still all friends. you could be with them.
but you're too scared. step up now before it's too late.

[blaiddyd]

to myself, sometime later, since i know im gonna need it
there are times in the path and choices you make you'll feel alone, miserable, out of place in things that are supposed to be comforting but aren't anymore. you'll feel like a nuisance and disliked, but it's torture to keep thinking that way. there are a few things to do that aren't wallowing in your own tears and emptiness that i should do; so i hope that i can do that rather than sitting around and waiting for time to pass and for the weeds to pull themselves out, or for the river to flow the way i want it to go. i want to find myself distractions, things that i like, new places to go, and to finally find my place. sure, there's no way i can go soul searching somewhere else, but with patience and time comes reward and i hope that i, even later on will find that. there are things to look forward in life that i keep forgetting about, and other things that make me happy rather than just small little things. find enjoyment in the little things, and enjoy being alone every once in a while. it's too tiring when you expect others to do everything for you, so try talking to them first. try greeting the ones you love first, try more gratefulness, everything that you once were uncomfortable with and push yourself out of this little circle that held you back from everything you wanted to enjoy before. i hope that one day, myself in the future can look back at this and check every single wish and goal and happy thought i had off with a feeling of relief, knowing that i was able to move on. maybe one day i can be totally honest to people i love and trust, but for now, i think i have to work on myself and working out all the little parts that i want fixed.

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Dear X.
You're very bad. You always look at my bad things and I wanna leave you unfortunately

[<<3]

dear idek,
i really like you......i've liked you since october. you've been through three plus girls since then and not even one was me. then when you fianally do get to me you say "i'm trying to hard" and on the fourth day we break up, for what i feel like is a really bad excuse. but it might not be an excuse. idek. i cant tell when you're lying or not, which sucks. then today you said we'd have to date in secret cause you're "not suppose to date". and then i said we'd talk about it late which we did and you said "we should just stay friends" which broke my heart. its cause of s ik for a fact. i was never enough and when i did i still wasn't. and now, idk what to do.

-always in my heart, e

[silvermahogany]

Hey L

So i like you but i can never tell you that, can i? We have so much in common yet we're not friends because i'm too dumb and socially awkward to talk to you. You're dating K now and you seem happy so i won't interfere with that at all but i wish i could tell you how much i like you or even start a basic conversation without having a panic attack beforehand. I hope you're always happy, you deserve to be. If fate wills us to be together then so be it but only time will tell that.
You don't see the real me since i made the mistake of completely closing myself off from everyone else at the start of year 7. You see a cold, unsmiling person when i promise i'm not like that. I'm just scared how people would react if they knew the real me. The real pansexual, nonbinary me as a member of the furry fandom and diehard pokemon fan. If i was completely open it would basically be inviting in the bullies but i know you wouldn't judge. I wish nobody would judge so that i could be more open around you and show you the real me.
Let's nerd out about Marvel together sometime, ok?

Love you,
Jojie

[canis-corax]

letter to self- learn to love and let go

see, you already new this was the case. you knew from the beginning. what did you expect from it now? deep down you knew, yet for some reason you held on to a little hope. by god you hoped for the best, but its gone to waste. so don’t dwell, move on. you’ve done it before, you can do it again.

find someone new darling, it’s not the end.
open up, explore curiously, socialize,, you need it most.

stop beating the bush, dont beat yourself up, not any more. love yourself. accept who and how you are, and in time, so will they.