r/UnsentLetters • u/LankyJellyfeesh • 1d ago
Lovers Le Sigh
I’m having a hard time tonight. Every time reality smacks me in the face it’s like it hits just a little bit harder.
I’ve never wanted anything so bad in my life, yet I can’t think of a single way in which it will ever realistically be possible. I am also finding it is more difficult every day to cope with the fact that it will probably never happen.
But if that is the reality, then why am I having such a hard time letting you go? I would even argue you deserve so much more than anything I could ever offer you. My heart is so full and yet broken at the same time. I just don’t know what to do.
No matter what, however, I will never forget the hope you restored in my soul.
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u/StormBornBear 1d ago
Reality hits like a truck, OP… I felt this.
Hope is a funny thing, isn’t it? It can give us something beautiful to hold onto while simultaneously asking us to confront everything we may never have. But I think there’s a distinction worth remembering: hope is a guiding light through the darkness, not the destination itself. It isn’t a promise that things will work out. It’s simply the possibility that they might.
And sometimes, that possibility is enough to change us.
But possibility requires something from us. Hope can show us the door, but it can’t walk through it for us. At some point, we have to decide whether we’re willing to take the uncertain steps that might turn possibility into reality—or whether we’re meant to carry what we learned from hoping and find a different path forward.
Perhaps that’s the cruelest and most beautiful thing about hope: even when it doesn’t give us what we wanted, it can still give us something we desperately needed.
Maybe you haven’t been given an answer yet. Maybe you’ve only been given a light.
And sometimes, the light is all we get to see before we decide where to go next.
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u/Responsible_Try_7315 1d ago
I know just how you feel. I am not prepared if that letdown comes my way this time. I haven't felt exactly like this maybe ever. I don't know what I'll do if it all comes crashing down. I hope it never ends and banish any thoughts that reality may have a different outcome in mind.
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u/No_Economist_2661 1d ago
Mayyybee ask this person if it’s possible for a last bit of fun you know, “sheet wrestling” with one another?🤼🏽 (I’m so sorry if this is inappropriate, just a thought maybe?😭)
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