Dear World,

If I left this place would you miss me? Did you truly know who I was? Did you like me? As I look back to what I have accomplished, there are no words for it due to the fact that I have done nothing. I have wasted my life doing whatever I wanted to do, or doing something for someone else, knowing it would favor me in the end. I have not found the cure for cancer, I have not saved a life, I have not gone around giving the homeless food and blankets, I have not taken the time to find homeless animals and take them in and find a home for them. Life is going to end for me and for you. So are you happy with what you have done? Yes I have volunteered some of my time at the red cross, tried to incorporated all the people on the sidelines into the activity, befriended anyone, listened to people in pain, stayed by a friends when everyone deserted her and done most of what I was asked of. Yet there is an evil twin living inside us, that comes out and makes it seem like a tornado hit. What do you have to say about yourself for all the angry words you spoke, the hurtful ones you yelled, the tears you put in peoples eyes, and the bloodshed that happened because of you? I want to apologize for all the agony that I have caused. Please forgive me. I say sorry to the world from the bottom of my heart. I am sorry for all the times I loitered, for all those bruises I left you with, for the nights you had to cry yourself to sleep, for not sharing, for not caring and for all the bad things that may come. I know that I can be myself and only me, I can never be someone else, and so there isn’t any point in trying. So in the kindness of your heart, would you give me a second chance? Would you stay by my side and have one last laugh before we say our goodbyes? Let’s forget the past because we can’t change it and let’s not think of the future because it ends dark. I loved you and I have always loved you, even before I meet you, there was always a place in my heart for you and now before you walk out the door, I want you to know there is a part of me in you and you in me, we are all connected. I may only be myself but still there are signs of you plastered on my body. Thank you for changing me, even though at times it may have been for the worse, still through you I learned life and I will learn more through the more of yous that I meet. So don’t be shy and sit in the corner of the room. Stand up straight, shoulder back and smile, knowing that I will be there waiting to talk to you. Until the day we meet for the first time or the day we reunite, ill be waiting and dreaming of that moment and every time I think of it I get goose bumps. So don’t be a stranger, because who knows when he will take me. Maybe today, maybe tomorrow. Ill just say hello and goodbye just incase our paths don’t cross this life. All it matters is whats inside

Sincerely,

Gabriella Potievsky