I wrote this as an open letter for anyone that's realized like I have that it may be time to clean house. It's a sad and humbling moment to realize that you may need to let go of some friends but if they're meant to be around, they'll be around. Fate is funny that way.
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Friend,
This may be coming as a surprise to you, it may not, but for me, it needs to be done.
I can no longer accept our friendship as it stands. It is unbalanced. I can't remember the last time you called me and asked how I was. Do you know how I'm doing? What I'm doing? Some of the things I'm going through in my life right now at home, work, school, or with my family? I didn't think you did.
The majority of our phone calls involve me calling you asking how you are, your issues, welling being, e.g. If friendships, like any relationship, are about give and take, you've been taking more than you've given for far too long. I have no more left to give. I am tapped out, throwing in the towel. I'm not putting all the effort into this friendship anymore. No longer. I'm not calling, not texting, emailing, facebooking...you get the idea. If you want this to get back to the friendship we had before, it's time for you to put in work.
But if you don't want to continue this friendship, I'm ok with that. Really, I am. If it's time for us to move on, so be it. Because sometimes that's what happens in life, we meet people, they come on and off our travels down life's road, sometimes they stay for the long run, sometimes it's short. Maybe this is our off ramp.
The decision to stay on or get off is yours.
Me.
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