Dear Best Friend's Ex

Dear best friend's ex,

It's been a long time since he has waited after college by the canteen with those sunken bright eyes, craving for the nectar of glee, which he used to draw from your smile. Maybe that place is no more of a boulevard, rather a graveyard of dead hopes which some time back, he assumed to be immortal.

Since you left, the guy hasn't been the same. He has weaved a cocoon of indifference and isolation all around his core which he claims to be impermeable. But that's not something he actually wants. His fear of vulnerability has segregated him once again and once again he's afraid of loving and being loved.

There have been times when I had to lie to others in order to help you people spend some quality time. And now when we see him lying about his state, his feelings, his emotions, both to us and himself, it hurts. Maybe he thinks way too much about you but denies to accept it.

He's weak, weaker than before, and afraid of losing it all again. He has developed this weird fear of intimacy and attachment which I know, has been bugging him since your departure. No bones on you my friend, as I never had anything to do with you but me being his to go person, hurts to see him veiled in the facade of artificial coldness.

Some who would stand by the guy "you do not love anymore".

Open letter by Sourav Dev