Does it hurt to see the one you love start loving someone else?

What you must realise is that the feeling is no more than empty attachments from the past.
I've been through it.

im in uni and have a couple of guy friends... we've known one another for 2 years.

this is slightly long btw

so... one of them i like but i knew that we cannot have a relationship more than friends. im pretty sure that sometime during the years he could have liked me too. i dunno maybe im wrong...
but since i knew that a relationship is not possible (because it will not end up anywhere), i tried to stop thinking of him and get him out of my heart and see him as a "friend" only.

At times it worked, other days i feel that its hard to do so, but nothing new happened... i managed to get over the days when i was madly in love with him....
we're still in the same group of friends and hang around everyday (which doesnt help in un-loving!)

anyways, recently some girl started talking to him/flirting etc. he's a shy guy but eventually he started talking to her and hanging around with her etc. they're not "going out" or such...

i know i should not be annoyed. because i am the one who is trying to stop myself from going any further (i must also mention though that even if he did like me before he never did anything about it and i always tried to hide my feelings)

but im a human after all... i feel confused, annoyed, and messed up when i see/think of what happened and when i see him with the girl

sorry for the long post and thanks if u read it!!!

anyone felt like tht before? any magic formula to help me get him our of my heart once and for all? any advice?

btw he's a great friend but i want to see him as a friend ONLY

Im trying to work that sort of thing out at the moment as well, I love or loved this guy, and im trying to work out if I still really have feelings for him or if I just think I still do because of the past.
And it is very hard surprisingly!
I know you want to remain friends with this guy, but maybe for a while you should get some distance. I don't mean stop being friends, just for a while keep yourself busy and spend time with others friends, maybe make some new ones.
Just don't let yourself brood over him, keep yourself busy for a while and give yourself a chance to think over how you really feel.
Hope this helps!

thanks for the reply.
I know what u mean in terms of being distant from him for a while but throughout the term its not possible really. we are in the same group of friends with 3 other ppl, and we always hang around together and we do homeworks together etc which is quite a big portion of the time.
so its just not possible to suddenly not sit with them and become distant... (besides the other ppl in the group are good friends too so that wouldnt be nice)

however in the holidays and such we both go home and so we're not in the same place and we're not in contact...

i know that as much as i loved him ... i tried un-loving him...
if there was a possibility of anything hapening I would have flirted and so on to give him a hint, since he's a shy guy and probably wouldnt easily take a step forward (the girl who he talks to now, shes the one who started it)
but there was no point in doing that

oh if only there was some "honesty" drink to know what is going on in his mind - towards me and towards his new friend
i'd die to find out

Maybe you do need to talk to him?
Surely if you're going to continue to be friends, then you need to be honest about your feelings or he'll sense something probably.
Just tell him maybe what's going on, because he's your friend and it would really help you as well. Otherwise it's going to be very difficult for you.
I do understand that it would be so hard to talk to him, but maybe that's only fair on both of you?