Dear state examinations,
Thank you for reducing the value of my education into one small printed sheet with a statement of my results which won't show how hard I worked.
Dear (some) teachers,
Thanks for thinking that I was stupid and asking if I understood everything we did in class everyday. That really helped the other kids to accept me didn't it?
Dear _______,
Stop having an excuse for everything bad that you've ever done, sometimes it really is your fault.
Dear me,
Don't let your disabilites get you down; it's pathetic.
Dear friend A,
Sorry that we stopped being friends, I regret it everyday but it had to be.
Dear friend B,
You have to grow up sometime, we're both adults, you need to learn to be independent. You don't need someone to accompany you to the shop just across the road so you don't appear to be "a loner" and don't sulk when I refuse to entertain these notions.
Dear mornings,
I hate you, but I'm glad to be alive still.
Dear relation X,
I love you and wish that I could tell you that sometime. I wish that you could talk so that I knew more about you.
Dear supermarkets,
Please get better security so that I feel safe being there.
Finally, dear readers,
We all have bad days, regrets, mistakes and bad memories from the past but never let them get to you. You have your whole life ahead of you, your past does not define you.
Nicole.