an elephant named bert

Hello friends,

This is Bert. He's an elephant. I named him. Why? I don't know. He's here to merely represent a metaphor. yes, I'm going to use ye-old "elephant in the room" metaphor in this post. 

Have you ever had a friend/bf/gf/neighbor/what have you where one minute everything's honkey dorey and then all of a sudden..BAM! Nothing's the same. You aren't laughing together, you run out of things to talk about, and pretty soon you aren't even talking at all. You don't know what happened--all you know is that something that made you happy is gone. No explination, no reason, nada. Then, when you see each other again, it is AWKWARD. I mean the "no eye contact, long pauses, trying to bring back inside jokes and watching it fade horribly" awkward. Yay!

Well, as you can imagine, this has happened to me (hence the post). It is probably one of the most annoying things in the entire world. And by annoying, I mean frustrating, confusing, and saddening. Do you ever wonder what you'd say to the person/people that you've had this problem with? 

I have. Here it is:

What made you stop talking to me?

Why did you do it?

How can I make it better? 

I realize I may have had a part in what happened, and I'm sorry.

You went behind my back and then I was the last to know.

There are so many things I've wanted to say to you, but I can't even talk to you about the weather anymore. 

We used to be best friends and laugh together about EVERYTHING, I miss it. 

I miss you.

Hopefully, Bert won't be here too much longer.

We'll see, eh?