Dear Gustavo:

“Not much can be done now” but there can be learning that can be done now. If you learn from an experience you regret, there is new motivation in your heart: to understand better. This way there is more than regret in your heart, but a curiosity and a hope for a better life based on greater understanding.

You wrote that you wrote “more general, so she wouldn’t get scared”- but “special”, “beautiful” and “amazing” are big words, and therefore, they can scare a woman. Instead of holding your appreciation of her inside you and then letting go of a few big words on paper, you could have expressed to her your appreciation of her throughout the time you spent with her, using small, specific words that would be appropriate in the context of friendship (and therefore not scary to her). For example, you could tell her that she is honest: I like how honest you are. Or: I like how you keep your word, when you say something, you make it happen.

See the difference?

anita