Friday, May 13, 2016

You Prob'ly Think This Post is About You (you're right)

            Very recently I was contacted by a man from my past.  I’ve never spoken about him here before, but suffice it to say that this was someone who used to make my heart beat a little faster when I saw his name.  I haven’t heard from him in quite a while, and I was more than a little surprised when his email cropped up in my inbox.  But to my …not surprise, because I’m not really surprised… rather, it was a new experience seeing his name and feeling…. nothing.
            I wasn’t excited.  My heart didn’t skip a beat.  I didn’t even feel nervous as I opened it, read the two-word email, and then took my phone to show R.  In that moment, I didn’t want this man or whatever his email had to offer, I just wanted to show it to my love.  And I did.
           
            I know there have been a couple of people who have been “looking for” me recently.  The internet is pretty awesome these days, in that it will tell you who has been doing what in regards to your social pages.  I’m quite appreciative of that, because it gave me the opportunity to block the individuals I needed to from a couple of different sites.  Unfortunately, there’s no way to block someone from looking up your blog.  So instead, I have written an open letter.  It’s written with two people in mind, but if you think for a second that this letter is directed toward you… go ahead and assume you’re right.

The letter:

I am happy.  For the first time in nearly two years, I am truly happy.  I am in love with a wonderful man, and you don’t touch him.  Not even a little bit.  I don’t lay awake at night daydreaming of you.  I don’t wonder what you’re doing, or if you miss me.  And I don’t miss you.
That may come off as heartless, and to one person in particular… you kind of deserve it (Seriously, looking me up on LinkedIn right before your child's birth [Don’t flatter yourself by thinking I was looking you up, too.  I only found out about that because I had to access your fb page to block it.]?  What’s up with that?).  To anyone else, I’m just being completely candid.  
Regardless of the reason you want to look me up, please don’t.  Please don’t try to email me, text me, call me, or message me any other way.  I don’t want to hear from you.  I love R.  I adore him, more than I have anyone else in my entire life.  The depth, the sincerity, the passion that I feel for him… it is completely unsurpassed by any other, and I pray daily that it will only grow.  I won’t give him up for anything – or anyone.  He is not a consolation prize, and you are not “the one who got away”.
Anything you send won’t be replied to.  It will, however, be shown to him.  Please, just leave me alone. 

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            Anyone else reading this can think what they want.  I don’t really care.  I’ve learned plenty of times and in plenty of ways that very few are ever going to judge you fairly.  Being that this is the internet, I don’t really expect anyone to.  And I’m totally fine with that.  I just wanted to get that^ out in the open.

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