Thirty Day Challenge–Day 9

When I first started school in PreK my best friend was a girl named Ashley and we were inseparable! For my fifth birthday she was the only person I wanted to come to my birthday party, we sat next to each other everyday at school and we never went a day without playing on the ship playfort on the playground. She moved to Jacksonville, Florida after kindergarten and I left to go to public school in second grade. I didn’t hear from her for years.

On May 24, 1995 my old school received a letter from a little girl who had moved away from town and was looking for her friend. Luckily, the women in the front office who received the letter knew me and was able to get the letter to me. I was in the forth grade at the time and could not have been happier to hear from her. We began to write letters back and forth and it was so amazing to have her in my life again.

We wrote countless letters for years and we stayed in touch without a single phone call, email, text message or Facebook status for many years. I have kept each and every letter I have ever received from her and I treasure them to this day. As we got older out letters began to be written slower and slower and fewer and farther in between. The last letter I received from her was on November 29, 2001. I have tried to send letters to the address that I always used for her for years but I have never gotten a response back. I can not help but think about her and wonder. Did she go to college like she had always dreamed of? Did she get out of Florida? How are her parents? Is she married? Does she have kids? Is she alive? I have done my best to search for her online but her name is incredibly common and I have yet to find her. I pray that one day we will be united again in our friendship and until that I hope that she is well.

Day 1: Something you hate about yourself.
Day 2: Something you love about yourself.
Day 3: Something you have to forgive yourself for.
Day 4: Something you have to forgive someone for.
Day 5: Something you hope to do in your life.
Day 6: Something you hope you never have to do.
Day 7: Someone who has made your life worth living for.
Day 8: Someone who made your life hell, or treated you like poopy.
Day 9: Someone you didn’t want to let go, but just drifted.
Day 10: Someone you need to let go, or wish you didn’t know.
Day 11: Something people seem to compliment you the most on.
Day 12: Something you never get compliments on.
Day 13: A band or artist that has gotten you through some tough days. (write a letter.)
Day 14: A hero that has let you down. (letter)
Day 15: Something or someone you couldn’t live without, because you’ve tried living without it.
Day 16: Someone or something you definitely could live without.
Day 17: A book you’ve read that changed your views on something.
Day 18: Your views on gay marriage.
Day 19: What do you think of religion? Or what do you think of politics?
Day 20: Your views on drugs and alcohol.
Day 21: (scenario) Your best friend is in a car accident and you two got into a fight an hour before. What do you do?
Day 22: Something you wish you hadn’t done in your life.
Day 23: Something you wish you had done in your life.
Day 24: Make a playlist to someone, and explain why you chose all the songs. (Just post the titles and artists and letter)
Day 25: The reason you believe you’re still alive today.
Day 26: Have you ever thought about giving up on life? If so, when and why?
Day 27: What’s the best thing going for you right now?
Day 28: What if you were pregnant, what would you do?
Day 29: Something you hope to change about yourself. And why.
Day 30: A letter to yourself: tell yourself EVERYTHING you love about yourself.