Dear Freedom
My Loveliest Freedom,
(A letter to my ex lover - Freedom - I had to leave her when I took a full time job after freelancing for 5 years)
We’ve had a good run! I wish it could have lasted longer. Sincerely I do. This letter isn’t a palm off; please do not take it as such.
Truthfully, I love you. I really do. But you know… sometimes love just isn’t enough.
The future that is mine can no longer be sacrificed just so I can be with you indefinitely.
Our five years together will always be in my mind. Together we went so many places and did so many things that were always unusual and exciting.
And most importantly, you took care of me always - that is - as best as you know how.
And now I have something to teach you – please do not take this the wrong way, but use this to improve yourself for your future relationships.
Sometimes Freedom, you can be suffocating. And this is partially my fault as well. I was blinded by your easiness and your sensuality. I fell in love with you so badly that I sacrificed almost all I had to keep you by my side.
I also loved the attention that others would give me while we were together. Others also found you sensual and this made you even more sensual knowing that others wanted you.
A friend of mine once said that if she had you, that she would be “fully prepared to have you for life.”
To stay with you, I had to give up a lot. Now, I find that perhaps I have given up too much to keep you with me.
But I prefer to think - and I think it’s true - we have run our course and we’re both, ready for change. We are both ready for a new partner.
Though; I am certain that I will think of you often. I don’t’ flatter myself to think that you will think of me at all.
I will miss you for a very long time. For the rest of my life most probably and I never expect that I will ever have such a long affair with you again.
Perhaps from time to time we’ll have a short lived fling. But please keep it from my girlfriend. Girls detest lazy men.
You’ll forever be in my memories.
Love you,
~ Nathaniel.