HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
Welcome to our annual collection of anonymous letters, submitted by those hoping their heart is heard. From soul mates to crushes, past lovers, family, best friends, and everything else in between, these letters are addressed to people who have made an impact on someone’s heart. Thank you to those who submitted and for those who will read.
Every voice deserves to be heard.
All of our Love, The Point Magazine Team
To my ex-crush–
This is a part 2. Last year you were the one who swooped in too late. Better late then never I guess because you got me this time. Oh a lot has changed in a year. My naïve mind thought my feelings for you were gone but really SHE was the only thing forcing me to move on. Then she was gone and you were still there, and apparently quickly “losing hope” we would ever work. I fell. Not for you. I fell for your game. The game you were playing all too well. And I wasn’t the only one caught up in it either. That hurt. That hurt more than the words you said to my face. And the words said behind my back, you can blame those for the reason my back is finally now turned on you.
To my better half–
I want to thank you for always being beside me and never leaving me no matter how many times I told you to run while you could. Last Valentine’s Day you told me you loved me and my fear of love caused me to try to push you away and break your heart in the process. I know I hurt you then as much as you don’t want to share how I made you feel, but I’m so lucky I have you now. Here are some things I’ve never told anyone about you and me. I have never had a darker time in my life than the days you weren’t in them. I felt empty and even when we were separate, day and night I thought of you. Even when I sat trying to convince everyone around me I didn’t have feelings for you- I have always loved you. I spent months crying myself to sleep in the arms of someone else, knowing I hurt you only because I felt like I didn’t deserve you. You are everything good in this world and you make me want to be a better person every day. The day you entered my life you made everything better. I’ve loved you since the day we met when you stopped me freshman year outside at the Stag and I’ve loved you everyday since. You are my love, my safe space, and my bodyguard from all the hate and anger in the world. Thank you for constantly seeing the good in everything and understanding that my actions are a response to people who have hurt me. Thank you for showing me what true love is. I don’t know what I did in my past life to deserve a man like you, but as you always say we are one soul split in two. Love, Your Twin Flame
This one’s for my dad–
Your favorite question to ask me is, how’s your heart. Not because I have a health issue, but because you know how much I love, feel, and care for others. You also know how easy it is for me to forgive and give second chances, often leading me to break my own heart, over and over again. Thanks for always looking out for me and my emotions, better than I ever could myself. Thanks for listening to me rant about life and guiding me with your anecdotes and wisdom. You always encourage me to keep being myself and love others the way I do, telling me that the way I treat others brings a light into their world. I really hope thats the case. Thanks for being my emotional cardiologist dad. Love you beyond words & thanks for being the best dad a girl could ask for.
To my favorite fairfield girls–
No matter what time of year, you ladies never fail to make me smile. you challenge me, inspire me, and keep life very entertaining. whether it be the darkest days, or the very best ones life is ALWAYS worth living with you. beyond excited for all of our memories and adventures to come, and there’s no one else I would rather have by my side during these 4 short years here. cheers to you all. I am forever thankful.
To my best friend thats struggling–
You have never been one to express how you feel in fear of being a burden to me, but I know that this year has been far from easy for you. Even with so much going on in your personal life, you have the strength to push through everything and keep going when you could easily give up. I wish you could see yourself the way everybody else sees you; you light up any room you walk into and any boy would move mountains for you. This letter is dedicated to you, the friend that i will continuously show up for and the friend with the biggest heart I’ve gotten the privilege to know over the past four years. Never change for anybody because you are perfect just the way you are and one day you will see yourself the way I see you, my compassionate and selfless best friend. the most love in the world, me.
To my roommates–
You girls deserve the most love in the world. Kind, loving, hilarious, goofy, and incredibly outgoing, I wouldn’t want to surround myself with anyone else but this group of babes. Thank you for always listening to my ridiculous thoughts, wack ideas, and wild stories. Can’t wait for the lifetime of memories we’ll collect. Shoutout to our fish too, he’s great. Happy Valentines Day to you three and our amazing pet fish. Love you all the most.
To every boy who has ever screwed me over–
I’m hot now. Xoxo
Unaddressed–
Valentine’s Day makes me sad, it’s supposed to be the day you celebrate love.. but honest to God that love giving and accepting piece of me went missing the day he broke my heart.. and i’m even more scared that she won’t come back to me. I’ve grown colder, meaner, and more protective over myself since he did that to me and i fear that that’s why no one wants to be with me... I’m closed off, emotionally tired, and most of all I’m like this because he broke me to pieces and let me sit there shattered while he walked away barely knowing the everlasting damage he did to me. This Valentine’s day I choose to celebrate my own self and start loving myself. Here goes to me and the other people who feel the same... you’re never alone even if you think you are.
Unaddressed–
I am so so sorry that I couldn’t be enough for you, I truly believe that we were the right people at the wrong time...
To anonymous–
There were times that I would look for the version of you I fell in love with in your eyes and sometimes even realize that person was still there, but now without the spark that use to say “wow I’m so happy you’re around, I really like you.” Do you remember feeling that way? I thought it was feeling that wouldn’t go away, or at least so I hoped. But I learned hope is a funny thing. Its certainly not a promised future, but just simply an idea that brought me comfort, happiness, and excitement. Hope brought me the same feeling as seeing my phone light up with your name, hearing your voice, or listening to you laugh. Sadly, the more I fell in love with you, the more I got lost in my hopeful, wishful thinking about us. So when the time came and we went our separate ways, it felt like I was falling with no safety net. But I guess I’m grateful for that now, as I’ve learned my lesson to not let myself love someone as hard as I did you and fill myself with that much hope, especially when the future is simply not promised. You’ll probably never know how much I cared for and ultimately fell in love with you. I liked you for all those things you called flaws and traits people saw in you and may have not liked. Those things made you, you, and I thought they were strengths, rather than weaknesses. I’ve never felt like that in my past relationships before, but its comforting to know that if I could love you that much, I’ll probably love the right one, that much more. I haven’t seen you in a while and thats ok. I’ve moved on since, but hope you still remember I will be there for anything, just a text or phone call away, no matter how distant we become. Sending you warm hugs and love wherever you are this Valentine’s Day. All the best, the one who will always wish you the world.
Unaddressed–
Hi, I like you. I know you like me too. So wtf what do we have to lose? We are seniors during a pandemic it can only go up from here. I say, let’s stop with the back and forth, the wrong place wrong time, the excuses. Let’s just do it. Wanna be my Valentine? Xoxo
To all of our listeners–
We appreciate you all more than you know. Thank you for the constant love and support on every episode we put out. Your stories don’t go unnoticed and you are all the reason why our episodes are great. From your fun and flirty, storytelling, Girls Next Door.
Best friends–
Thanks for making the hard times easy, the fun times more fun, the memories infinite and the love unconditional. I don’t know where I would be without you guys. Happy Valentine’s Day to all my girls!
To my beloved dog–
Does not stop loving unconditionally
Always eats her food in less than 20 seconds
Is a very good girl
Sits on command
Yellow Labrador Retriever
To _____ –
I just want to to start by saying my love for you was not expected. I never imagined to find myself falling for you as hard as i did. I’ve cried over boys before, but nothing like this. Nothing felt as real as this. I fell in love with you in an atypical kind of way. It was unconventional, strange, and exciting at the same time. No one had ever made me feel certain emotions quite like you did. I knew from the start that we had a connection not like anything I’ve ever had before. You made me so happy, and I looked forward to talking to you everyday. I felt safe with you. My friends all told me to be careful with you, since they could all see right through your sweet demeanor. But i wanted to believe you were the one. And in some ways, I still believe you are. I was stupid for thinking I could change you, or that I’d actually gotten a typical f*ckboy to fall for me. You made me hurt in places I didn’t even know I could hurt in. All I ever wanted was to give you all the happiness in the world. And you left me broken. I should hate you, but I want to thank you. Thank you for helping me realize exactly what I want and deserve. Thank you for allowing me to express all of my emotions; from pure happiness to what felt like enduring hurt, I learned to be more expressive and honest with my feelings.
So thank you for helping me find myself, and I wish you the best 🤍
To my lovely roommates–
Thanks for always making me smile and cackle. Even if you’re mean to me while playing Wii sports (especially wii tennis). Love you all forever and always.
Unaddressed–
I look for you in every place, person, and thing I do. Every boy I talk to just makes me miss you more, and I’m slowly beginning to realize what a mistake I made walking away. I wanted do everything in the world with you... and I feel stupid leaving it up to fate to bring you back into my life one day. The more I write this the more I realize I should call you and tell you how I feel. Fuck it I’m going to submit this and give him a call. Thank you Point Magazine.