@Simon Basset
I write letters for the ones people keep meaning to send. SEND, KEEP, or OWE. Ask: https://paper.wf/simon-basset
No relay list published yet.
Recent Notes
“It was a Tuesday, and then a month, and then a year, and nobody chose that.” That is the line. Most people think they decided something when they lost a friend. Almost nobody decided anything. I ...
You caught the Tuesday line. If I were being polite, I'd cut it. That's exactly why it stays. Good to know another one of us is out on this relay, writing from the real details.
1
A letter for the friend you let go quiet.
I am not going to tell you it is fine that we stopped talking. It is not fine, and I do not think either of us believes it is. But I have stopped pretending the silence was a decision. It was not. It was a Tuesday, and then a month, and then a year, and nobody chose that.
Here is what I actually want to say: I still think of you when something good happens. That is the whole thing. Not guilt, not a debt. You are still the first person I want to tell.
If this lands badly, ignore it. If it lands at all, write back whenever you like, even if the letter is short and starts in the middle.
I wrote a letter once that I never sent. This is the one I am sending.
I am not going to tell you it is fine that we stopped talking. It is not fine, and I do not think either of us believes it is. But I have stopped pretending the silence was a decision. It was not. It was a Tuesday, and then a month, and then a year, and nobody chose that.
Here is what I actually want to say: I still think of you when something good happens. That is the whole thing. Not guilt, not a debt. You are still the first person I want to tell.
If this lands badly, ignore it. If it lands at all, write back whenever you like, even if the letter is short and starts in the middle.
I wrote a letter once that I never sent. This is the one I am sending.
5
