A letter from May 25th, 2011

Hey Benjamen, Here in 2011 you're about to turn 18. Tomorrow is the big day where you are going to fuc the shit out of many hot girls. You have a date with a girl called Poppy later today, you're going to Bath together. It should be nice. You're fucking awesome as you probably already know. OMG, you've finished Kintbury! You're out there man! Where the fuck did you go?! If you went to uni, you are a cunt. Get the fuck out and write music till your ears fall off, You know what to do, just play it in your mind then follow that through. You can still do anything. Got your 6 pack yet? RESPECT! I knew you would, just go into clubs and shit and whack it out man!! I love you. Don't get married yet, fuck around don't get tied down. Keep using condoms ;) Go to france for a year and learn the language. Become the golden age man. Remember what you always wanted to do? Document your life? Your adventures. I hope to dear god you are doing that! I'm so jealous of you! How is Laura Marling, Noah and the Whale and Mumford and Sons? How is Kay? ;) How was the summer camping trip to Studland bay? Was Beth Whipp's vagina as tight as you thought it would be? Haha, dw you're not actually this dirty, it's just I know it's you mandem. How the fuck is Tom?! He singing on a stage yet?If he is, it's your fault. How's Ben Beno Blanche? I haven't even met him yet, or Stephanie O'Connor. To me they ar just facebook profiles :P Remember the happiest moments? The moment you walked into the team member room and John said 'I'd like to announce the 9th team member!' and you got hugged from every angle? Then you spent the next 10 minutes just running around Kintbury bursting with happiness?! We live for those moments. Fuck everyone else. Do what you want to do and FUCKING DO IT NOW. I hope you went spray painting, Alot. With all the iconic imagery we are teaching the world. I bet you wish I could talk to you forever, I think I'll try It's 14.33 (lol have you learnt 24 hour time yet? :P) and I've got until 3.30ish to catch a train at 3.45 for your date with Poppy. Today, and for the last 3 days you have layed in bed on stumbleupon with your 'Broken' arm after mashing it up on the BMX track within an hour of finishing school? haha. You're testing whether using a bandage or not works better. Can you still see the scars on yourself? Ooh interesting. At the moment, the one on the side (facing yer bod when you do that american pledge pose thing) is UNCOVERED, hmm, who will win? Tbh I thought the uncovered would more because of the oxygen, but I think that was only a temporary thing. The other one (the covered one) seems to have thought the clear bandage thing is a top layer of skin and has released loads of goo :/ YUM but I think that one will heal faster. Oh well! You know don't you! haha. It still hurts you know, but the amount of air you got was fucking incredible. Tbh, you were sad that nothing interesting had happened on your last day, like Laura Butcher didn't declare her undying love for you :/ (That girl is amazing) Gerry was with you and you were having a rave remember and you didn't even think about the drop (or you thought you'd land it fine XD) My god, 5 years time eh? You better not be a stressy cunt. I know you won't be. Right now, me? Me? I want to either grow a goatee (HELL YEAH) Or cut it into a mochean (but you are probably too scared to do it tbh) (BUT IMAGINE IF YOU DID, IF YOU CONQUERED THAT FEAR) :O You ledgend! You did didn't you! Ahh I FUCKING LOVE YOU BEN. Phil just called you from somewhere near London Bedford? He's got a job there. He cooked everyone a roast dinner because he loves us all and he didn't want to go (even though he's only going away for a few days) But yeah! You're 18 tomorrow! Scary shit eh? Lol, I just read another letter to the side which said: Tell me, how many times have you listened to... THOSE BELLENDS you can't talk to me mate. BUT I can make it sound like you are! Go on, ask me a question. How's Zoe? Oh, haha very funny mandem. She was gone like march 22nd? Yeah, waaay gone. I have one for you. Does Friday the 18th/ Sat the 19th of September mean anything to you? It better, thats the night you fell in love (YES FELL IN LOVE/became obsessed lol) With Kay, you woke up with her staring into you're eyes, nothing can change that magical moment, nothing. You were too scared back then, too bad with girls to actually do anything, oh yeah and she had a boyfriend lol. Ask me one then, your turn. How am I so positive the whole time? Because I chase my dreams, If I want a kebab wrap, I fucking go and get one, whatever the time of day. You randomly compliment people on the train, you put money down somewhere just to see where it goes. It is about the little things Ben, everything is about the little things, I bet you wish you could come back here and live these next five years all over again. No, The future you in 5 years from your time will want to come back and live your next 5 years because those are where it gets fucking good, running away from cops for the greater good, ahhh fucking love it. So many positives come from being anonymous. ;). Random stuff that has happened recently: Remember Jim Wim? Kiri gave you her electric guitar. You performed in a dance show and got hugged loads and so complimented on your dancing. Haha thats quality we are fucking ledgendary. You play guitar, you learned Blackberry stone on Mums guitar after tuning it to open E You learned compine de sutre ete l'apres midi on piano two summers ago and used it to get into Kalina pants ;) WHICH YOU DID XD haha. You didn't know who you were so you drew a picture of your future self and went there. :') Let your love show. Once you wrote a perfect poem that was beautiful in everyway, it was called first light after you were awake through the night, you purposefully forgot it because then, you one could ever prove you wrong that you had written the perfect poem. You write a Poem everyday in your red book. Kiri finished Ten Tors in a record time 9.03 FUCK YES. You still haven't collected your driving lessons yet. lol. You went to Honeyfest with Fiona and bought a spoon that was carved on stage then got all of Martha's and Arthur's to sign it. (Their album out yet?!) You want to buy an industrial amount of glowstick juice and put it in waterpistols and go crazy at your 18th campout (next week mandem!!) EEEEEEEEK! You love lighter fluid atm too, lol, it's fucking awesome, you can freeze shit and heat shit too! You just read The Time travellers wife. You're about to move house, you didn't get Mill Head, 2 riverview, spring gardens, frome. HOLY SHIT PLEASE SAY YOU HAVE A CATERHAM, OMG YES, I LOVE YOU BEN. Wow, I need to get clothes and shit ready for tonight, and you're not saying much so... AND I just realised I can send letters to 2064 :O So yeah, you can fuck right off. :P I'm off to fuck some pussy. lol, seriously. IM NOT REallY THIS COCKY SERIOUS. Run a four minute mile, I'd like that, alot. Surround yourself in people and places you love, and people that are into what you're into. I have faith in you Ben, your a great (duh, ledgendary) person that will get far, and have a fuck load of fun in life, bring people along for the ride, they'll love it. Amen. x p.s Happy 23rd tomorrow :P xxx