<human>: Can you condense the text into a few key points?

I was / am crushing on one of my best friends (we're both gay males) and after 8 months I finally had him tell me ''there will never be an us.'' The best metaphor he could give me was ''it's not that you are not good enough for me, it's just that some people prefer the taste of different foods. That does not mean that they are bad though.''

Though it may be really fucking stupid for me to think that if I could just get him to tell me what is unappealing about me (heh, I am pretty sure I know what it is) that I could work on changing it and maybe within a year if he is single, I am single, maybe we could be something. It's proving to be very hard for me to break this thought pattern. We have not talked in a few days and I still think about him every waking second.

Logically I understand it. He's not into me like I am into him but emotionally I just can't grasp / don't want to accept that I have 0% chance at anything other than a friendship with me. I'm trying to work through those feelings but as soon as I think about it I just break down and cry.

I was just wondering if someone could maybe take a different approach at explaining it so maybe it can click in my mind that we truly will never be anything other than best friends. :/

Thank you for your time. <3
<bot>: Help explain ''I just don't feel that way about you'' in a different way so I can emotionally grasp it.