You used to have this. You share something that the whole world will probably never understand. Best friends. Never lovers. And you were both seemingly happy and content with whatever it is that you share. Until things began falling apart for no apparent reason. He walked one path, you walked another. You lived separate lives and met new people to fill the voids of your hearts. But here you are, clinging to whatever little hope that’s left that when your lives would cross again, you will share the intimacy you both once shared. But it didn’t happen.

Ironic, isn’t it? How people who once mattered to you just became familiar strangers. No signs. No warnings. It just happened. And it pains you how you thought and felt things differently. Then it just dawns on you. It shouldn’t matter now. What you had was simply part of a happy past that led you to the people you are with right now. You probably could have loved him. He probably loved you, too. But you both shrugged it off. You both ran away. You both got away. No one’s to blame. You’re living separate lives now. Deal with it. Deal with it in the most painful way possible. Deal with it in a way that you won’t let it happen again.

Note to best friends secretly falling in love: Just let it be. Don’t fear that things won’t work out. Hang on to that love. Stay. Never ever walk away. After all, it feels better to be tagged as “the one who stayed” rather than “the one who walked away”, isn’t it? Nothing hurts as much as falling in love and not letting the other person know. That person may have just felt the same way, too. Not taking your chances will terribly pain you in the most incomprehensible ways. 

Sweetheart, just stay. Don’t let go. Believe me, it hurts to be just familiar strangers. 

Walking away will be the saddest, most painful and dumbest act you will ever do in your life. Especially when you almost had it all.

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