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Why’d you leave?

2 min readFeb 8, 2026

Hey, I saw the dress you gifted me when we were 15. Wore it, looked fabulous.
I don’t know how to treat the soft toy penguin that you gifted me.
Should I remove my upsetness on her?

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Mingu is happy, loved and safe.

Why’d you leave?
Why’d you leave the way you did?
Don’t you think I at least deserved a goodbye?
Like you know, you could’ve acknowledged ki tujhse ye nahi ho raha hai (you can’t do it anymore) instead of giving me false hopes.

You still like my reels and pictures, but what about the fact that you said you’d call?
What do you mean we just fizzled out?
We were friends since 6 years. I thought we were worth more effort than that.

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Yeah yeah I know I’m taking her incompetence personally. But if she wanted to, she would na?
Yeah I know, her not showing up doesn’t mean I don’t deserve a friend who shows up. no matter my mistakes, I still deserve a friend who shows up.

But what do I do of this anger? that I have towards you?

The betrayal I feel after looking at your stories and posts, like what? How could you do this to me? But wait, you did it and it was terrible. It’s not fair you know. Its not fair at all.

I’m still left to tell you all the ways you hurt me. I’m still left to tell you all the ways you can make it right. I’m still left to operate on this relationship so you stay and we’re happy and then secretly i will resent & wonder if you will ever save this relationship the way i did.
if you would ever do the things i did to keep me from going.
and then, i will feel lonely, lonely because you’re not the saviour I am.
Lonely because i would ignore myself to save a relationship and you wouldn't.

How is that fair to you? to me? to anybody?

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