I think it is time we had an open and honest talk. As I once did in Santa, I have always believed in you and hoped I would meet you one day. But after the odyssey I've faced looking for you, I guess it is time I came to terms with it all.
When I was younger I would see you being portrayed so magically and beautifully in Hollywood movies and in fairy tales I was read that it fed me with the strongest dream of meeting love. I remember feeling so safe knowing that something so beautiful as you existed in our world, and I hoped so badly I would come across you someday.

When I was twelve I used to have this huge crush on my best friend at school, and by then I was so sure she was my one and only love, my destined one. I hung to that feeling as much as I could, but reality eventually struck me and I saw that love was not there. From then on I would always stumble and fall while trying to find you. Desperately, sometimes, I cried out for you into the empty nights. And I would indignantly ask myself why you were hiding from me, why there wasn't love anywhere I looked for it.
Honestly, love, had I known looking for you was such a misleading and painful path, I would have rather never wish meeting you at all. I despise myself for idealizing you, for believing in empty promises of ever-lasting love, for being convinced that it was worth and noble to seek out for you. In the end, all that search was simply so meaningless.
But I am now tired. I am tired of all the hopes I've wasted on you, of all the dreams you grew in me and then took away letting me with nothing to cling to. I did believe you were the one force of life I could rely on, that once we met you would never abandon me, never let me perish, again. Oh, dear love, I thought you were somehow stronger than all the rest, I let go of my sword and shield thinking you were my faithful knight, and now I am left unprotected in this battle.
Still, I rise, love, for I'm not immune to your traps, your soul-eating consequences, but I am tougher than you might have figured. I write you this so you can know I no longer rest in you such great power on my life, that I no longer believe you are magical, innocent and good, only. I now know that living for you is too dangerous a path to follow. But I was deceived by life, by men and by me, I was made believe that the only noble life is that lived seeking for ideal and pure love. Oh, silly of me. Maybe I should have known that noble love can only be experienced by noble men. I, a mere ordinary man, desire the purest of loves...
Surprisingly I found a flickering gleam lit in my soul. It is now reason that helps me through. I have summoned it and made extensive use of its so enlightening counsels. We ought to meet again, love, I know. You might have not had enough of me and want to teach me some more painful lessons. But I am done for now. I am on the edge of stumbling and no longer being able to rise. I lack strength for fruitful learning in your arms, now, and any more pain might just ruin it all. So I need to let go of you, for now. I hope reason and time patch every single wound you left, every single crack.
As I once chose not to believe in Santa for it hurt me a lot realizing he no longer left me gifts under my bed, I chose to keep you out of my life, too, for all you leave now are tears and sobs.
Farewell, and may we meet again in happier times.