Day 3 - Your Parents

So day three has come and gone. Today's letter was one to my parents and it was... torn?
Don't get me wrong, I love my parents. My parents gave me life and raised me well and gave me everything that I could ever ask for. They have provided food and shelter and a VERY good education and I will always love them and always be grateful.
Feel the "but" coming on? Because here it is.
I'll always love them and be grateful but there are always things about parents that children aren't happy with. I wish we had more money or more liberties. I wish a lot of things, and I wish that I could be open about these things but it's not always that easy. There are things I wish I had told them when I was in high school or going into college, but as much as I like to be open I'll never be THAT open.
My letter today was an up and down roller coaster, but it was nice to get some of my thoughts out on paper. So far this is proving to be a great exercise. Tomorrow's letter is to my sibling, and I'm still deciding between writing to my brother or my sister. So we'll just have to wait and see! Until then...

Day 2 - Your Crush

So I was completely wrong. Tomorrow I will be writing to my parents. Today I wrote to my crush. Unfortunately for me, I don't get to meet many people while sitting at home and doing nothing with my life, so I chose a celebrity crush. I wrote my letter to Ryan Reynolds. Not only is he intensely hot, but he plays so many emotional roles that I can't help but think that some of that emotion exists within himself. Also he's so immensely funny. So I wrote to him and told him what I thought. Today's exercise was fun and helped release my mind from the stresses of job hunting. I got to forget about my problems for a few minutes and express some positive feelings toward a very fantastic (looking) man!

Tomorrow is about my parents. I swear I got it right this time lol.
See you then!


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Day 1 - Your Best Friend

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In case you have forgotten, I am writing thirty letters in thirty days. Each letter will be to a different person or group and is mapped out in advance.
Today I wrote a letter to my very best friend. This was a hard decision to make because I have two best friends - Emily and Ellen. Today I wrote to Emily (No worries, we will see Ellen as well!). The letters are supposed to be about reflection and with Emily I had a lot and a little to reflect on at the same time. Emily is my little in our Sorority and I have known her since my freshman year in college. She means a lot to me and basically the letter was about how glad I am to have her in my life and how much I love her. However, since we talk so often I really did not have much to say. Around time for graduation I told her how much she has meant to me so it was pretty difficult to reiterate those previously shared feelings without sounding redundant. In my letter I just reminded Emily of who she was to me and thanked her for being a part of my life.

It is always nice to think positively on friends. It's a great way to get in touch with your emotional side without getting scared. Baby steps. Choosing best friend as the first person to write to (whoever made the list) was a great idea. This was an easy way to start, but I'm sure the others won't be so great.

Today's reflection was a happy one and I'm glad to say so. Tomorrow's reflection/letter is to my parents. That one will probably not be as pleasant but I'm not sure yet. We'll just have to wait and see.

30 Letters in 30 Days

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To receive you first must give; and lately I haven’t been giving anything at all. In the past three months I have been so selfishly absorbed in my own mourning that I have forgotten to give anything of myself. For this I am truly sorry. So in an attempt to not only make up for this lack of interaction with my loved ones and friends, but to get in better touch with my feelings and my place in life so as to turn it around into what I would like it to be, I am going to write. For the next thirty days I will be writing one letter per day to specific people or groups. Some days I will share these letters, others I will write them to keep for myself but to get the emotions on paper anyway. Every day will revolve around reflection, and I am hoping to become closer with my emotions and provide my friends and family (and quite possibly myself) with some level of solace.

It is unfortunate to announce that I am nowhere near clever enough to come up with an idea like this on my own. A friend of mine and myself are both participating in this exercise, and she found it first. The idea comes from a random site that she literally stumbled upon. I have mapped out the next thirty days and will do my best to share my thoughts and feelings and reflections with you. If you are reading this, whoever and wherever you are, please know that this is a large leap for me. I do not talk about my feelings, I do not let people in, and that has ruined my life so far. Let’s see if there’s anything we can do about that. Below is the list of whom I will be writing to (in some sense). Maybe you would want to do the same.

http://stories.mibba.com/read/399036/30-Letters-in-30-Days/

Day 01 - Your best friend

Day 02 - Your crush

Day 03 - Your parents

Day 04 - Your sibling

Day 05 - Your dreams

Day 06 - A stranger

Day 07 - Your ex boyfriend/girlfriend/love/crush

Day 08 - Your favorite internet friend

Day 09 - Someone you wish you could meet

Day 10 - Someone you don’t talk to as often as you’d like

Day 11 - A deceased person you wish you could talk to

Day 12 - The person you hate the most/caused you a lot of pain

Day 13 - Someone you wish could forgive you

Day 14 - Someone you’ve drifted away from

Day 15 - The person you miss the most

Day 16 - Someone that’s not in your state/country

Day 17 - Someone from your childhood

Day 18 - The person you wish you could be

Day 19 - Someone that pesters your mind - good or bad

Day 20 - Someone that broke your heart the hardest

Day 21 - Someone you judged by their first impression

Day 22 - Someone you want to give a second chance

Day 23 - The last person you kissed

Day 24 - The person who gave you your favorite memory

Day 25 - The person you know is going through the worst of times

Day 26 - The last person you made a pinky promise to

Day 27 - The friendliest person you knew for only a day

Day 28 - Someone that changed your life

Day 29 - The person that you want to tell everything to, but are too afraid

Day 30 - Your reflection in the mirror