A Year’s Worth of Healing — An Open Letter to My Ex

All I can say now is thank you, my dear past

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“No matter how society wants to tear us apart. Love will always find a way to bring us back together.” — we used to say this line all the time.

My eyes twitched when I flipped my planner. It has been a year already since I last saw and talked to you. I was about to write my to-do list but instead, I put my pen down and sat in silence. Our memories are still vivid, like it all happened yesterday. The moment our eyes met and we fell in love at first sight. The butterflies I felt when we began talking and exchanged names. The time you held my hand and asked, “Will you be mine forever?”

You had all my firsts, yet I wasn’t your last.

We were both immature when we met but later on, we both realized that love is about accepting each other’s flaws. You were the first one who said “I love you.” You were also the first to say “I don’t love you anymore.” We were together for five years — it was full of love, laughs, fear, fights, and hopes. You were everywhere and you knew everything about me. When you walked away, I didn’t just lose a lover, I lost a best friend — my partner in all certainties, until our future became a…