Goodbye Old Friend

Old Friend,
Please forgive me. I'm letting you go. You don't need me anymore. We both have grown. We've grown so much, and so far apart, that nobody can tell what we used to be. You were my best friend, the person who let me be me, and didn't think twice about it. You changed me and showed me who i really was. You helped me find myself, get out of the person i was becoming.

We were inseparable, you and i. For the passed couple of months, i have been trying to figure out what has happened to us. Why we aren't "us" anymore. I think back to my birthday. How you were the only person who was there for my so-called "sweet 16", and the small things you did made it the best birthday i ever had. I think back to my 15th birthday, and how you tried so hard to make it a surprise party with all my friends, but nobody except you showed up, and you still kept the party a secret. I think back to all the times that we would make up stupid nicknames for each other, so many that i can't remember all of them at once. I think back to the time that we were at the skate park and i said those two terrible words to you, and you forgave me, even though we had promised never to say that to each other. We had so many good memories. Last year, we both started to change, go in different paths. You became you, and i became me. We weren't an "us" anymore. We tried so hard to remain the same, but after our first fight, it was never the same.

I wish that i could change all the bad things we went through. I wish that i could put us back to how we were. You and me. Me and you. Us. I wish that i could go back to the time that we made a large whirlpool in the pool in my old backyard, when we made it and couldn't get out, no matter how hard we tried. Times like those. I wish i could just go back. But i know that we've changed. I know that you and i will never be the same, like we were back then. But i will keep the memories that you and i had. The memories that will never be forgotten. The memories of my old best friend. So i guess that this is goodbye. Goodbye to us. Hello to you, Hello to me. But goodbye to us. So goodbye old friend. Please don't forget me. Don't forget you. Don't forget us.

-me