1ST Quarter_Week 7_Performance Task: Letter of Appreciation

 Personal Comment: I'm really sorry for being so sensitive and emotional in creating this letter.

Dear Significant Person,

                You’re the person who knows me best in this entire world. Likewise, no one knows you better than I do. We’ve been together for the longest time. I know your ugliest side as you also know mine. Knowing your dirty secrets, I felt nothing but hatred and disgust for you. You were the most revolting person I know. If other people knew you as I do, I knew that they would feel the same way too.

You were my biggest eyesore as I was to you. You hurt me as much as I hurt you. I don’t like it when you get close to other people, so I try my best to sabotage your relationships. In return, you also do the same to me. I was not jealous. I just didn’t want to see you happy the same way you don’t want to see me happy. I only wanted you to rely on me and I to you. We were in such a toxic relationship, and we both knew it.

But we just can’t seem to end that sadomasochistic relationship of ours. More like, we didn’t want to. We just wanted to see how much we’ll both suffer in this vicious cycle of pain and agony. It felt both bad and good at the same time. We were both at a stalemate.

But no matter how great our loathing for one another was, we knew that it had to stop before we ended up killing each other. In the end, we somehow came to a truce.

We decided to take a gamble: a gamble between life and death.

A suicide pact, as you may call it.

We gave each other a year to change: a year to really try. If not, we’ll both just end everything. Somehow we did it. I finally had the courage to set you free from myself. We are no longer each other’s shackles. Even though there were times where our bad habits relapsed, we still managed to get back on track.

Looking back, we have come so far as friends. You have become my confidante, as I am now to you. We have eventually accepted one another. We realized that the person who’s always been there for us was each other. Even when other people had thrown us aside, we banded together as one and persisted. We are not so useless, after all.

Thank you for not giving up on me, and thank you for not giving up on yourself. Even though my hatred for you has subsided, I still can’t say that this emotion I’m feeling for you is love. It is still far from that. Maybe I’ll learn to love you someday, and maybe you’ll learn to love me too. But for now, I’m contented with what we have going on. As long as I no longer see your pathetic face in the mirror and you no longer see mine, I’m fine with this.

                                                                                                                                                                Sincerely,

                                                                                                                                                                                Celine