Where are you now?

Dear FutureMe, The date is currently November 21st 2009. You are in your second year at the University of Ottawa, and just got off work from the Keg. Life's been so crazy for you lately. You've been working two jobs between the Draft and the Keg, and I'm sure by now you'll still remember the week you had to write four papers in four days...yes that was this week. This was also the week you attended the Global Vision conference for the JTC. Did that end up changing your life as much as you thought it would at the time? I hope you remember sitting at the round table and thinking to your-self... "how do people like my friends sit around and get high all the time, and think that working towards their undergrad is enough". I hope you never turned into one of those people, that you pursued your goals and dreams and that you pushed your-self harder than you thought you ever could. By the time you get this, you'll be graduate and well on your way to doing whatever it is you're doing. Have you worked towards your own NGO? Please tell me that dream hasn't vanished ot become too unrealistic? It's what you wanted, it's all you wanted. I hope for you and me both that you've seized all the opportuinities life's thrown at you, be they scary, demanding, hard or challenging, because opportunities like those are usually the most valuable ones. Back when this what written, you didn't know what you wanted for the rest of your life. Kids, a family, a career? But one thing that you did know, and that i hoped you never forgot, was that you wanted more. More than just a 9-5 job, more than to be a soccer mom, more than to settle down and become one of millions of average, middle-class women in canada. You had dreams. You wanted to change the world in your own way. You wanted to be someone who could one day go to a youth conference, and have the people attending it care about what you had to say and what you did. You wanted to never lose the strenght to believe and dream, and I hope you never did. Are you and Laura still talking? This was a time in your life when you thought you two would be best friends forever, no matter where you both ended up. Have you lost touch with Eric and Jordan? You used to miss them both so much at school. Did you ever talk to Alex Simon again? You were convinced that somewhere down the line...well, you didn't really know. You just thought it wasn't the end for you two. But I guess every teen feels that way about their first. How many countries have you been to? Will you ever live outside of Canada (I'm hoping the answer is YES). I hope life has become everything you've wished it to be and more. Remember that the 19 year-old in you was unsatisfied with an average life, with being ignorant of the problems that, though she couldn't see them, knew existed around the world. Stand up. Take action. Dare to dream... 19 year-old always wanted you to. Love always, your youngster self Tracey K Evans P.s. How did the world end up doing on those Millenium Development Goals? Not so hot? That's what I thought!