God did I love you. So in love that I never could see anything around me but you. You were my all, my everything. You were the wind beneath my wings, the fire in my soul. While we often wonder what the true meaning of love really is, I don't doubt that I was once in love with you.

And yes, I did write that in past tense.

Love is strange, dangerous. It throws more curve-balls than any professional baseball player in their entire MLB career. It can make people crazy. What I learned most from love is that it is indeed possible to fall out of it but that doesn't mean the love that was once there was ever untrue.

There are going to be times in our lives where we will have a love so strong, you feel as though you could fly around the world in a day. Yet, time can change that love.

You're getting to know someone. You learn their interests, you learn their fears. They show you a side of them that they don't show. And then you start to fall in love. Everything that person does makes you smile.

The way they eat their favorite dinner, the way they can't stay awake for a whole movie while laying on the couch. You fall in love with all of their quirks.

But as time grows, you learn of other quirks and curves that you might not be in love with. Like their level of jealousy or how they get when they've had just one too many drinks.

Love is about growing with one another. Continuing to learn as the days go by. If that love is meant to last, you will forgive them for those quirks that rub you the wrong way.

But if that love isn't meant to last, those quirks will begin to pain you in a way you never thought someone you were so in love with could ever do. You'll often find yourself so enraptured in the thought of being in love and wanting to keep that love alive that you're fighting for a love that isn't quite there anymore.

Which is what happened to us.

I loved all of you. You were my best friend, and I had never given myself to someone the way I had with you. But as the time grew on that love had slowly started to fade.

Something I had only thought about in nightmares. I always thought one day you would wake up and you wouldn't be in love with my quirks anymore and you'd realize we weren't meant to be.

Well while I was fearing it would be you that this happened to...the opposite had happened.

There is nothing wrong with you. You are an amazing person and I don't have a doubt in my mind that one day you will find a love so strong and so built to last that you really could fly around the world in a day.

But for us, it just wasn't meant to be.

I had to let you go. If I didn't, I would still be fighting for a love that just wasn't there. Which, in turn, wouldn't have been fair to you. It would have kept you from the opportunity of finding your one. Which I hope you do one day.

You deserve someone that will make you feel like the sun rises and sets at night just for you. Someone that will love you and your quirks and forgive you for the ones that they aren't fond of, but will love you for anyway.

The love I had for you was anything but unreal. It's a love I will never forget, and the lessons I learned and the journey we shared, will forever be in my heart.

I don't wish you anything less than all the happiness life can bring you.

I'm sorry the stars weren't aligned for us to be together, but your one is out there looking for you.

You'll find them, I promise.