A letter from May 07, 2025

Peaceful right?

Dear future me, Right now, I’ve received two scholarships to ASU, most notable of which being the three-year army ROTC scholarship. I hope your first year in Senior ROTC was amazing and stellar. Just last week I retired from being battalion commander and took the first steps towards the big army. As you're wrapping up your freshman year of college, I hope you kept the scholarship benefits and didn’t do anything stupid. My world right now is a lot of events and things. I own a lot of ASU clothes and khaki pants that I hope you still own. I live between both my mom and my dads house. I’m sure now that you have your own dorm, with your own stable living space, that you don’t miss the back and forth. Graduation is a week away. Right now, I’m doing a whole lot of nothing. I dedicated a majority of my time towards JROTC and DECA, and now that I am finished with that it’s time to pick up some personal hobbies. My hope is that in the summer, or your summer before college, that I get into golfing, and stand-up comedy. I also want you to focus a lot on physical fitness, but i'm sure by the time you get this letter you’re already an absolute unit. All my family is in my life right now, and so are my good friends, Dahlia, Yahir and Montse. Make sure to check up on them, especially Dahlia since she’s the furthest away. Hopefully you maintain regular contact with them. Hopefully you have the same girlfriend but if not, that sucks for you, because I have them right now, loser! This year was the most eventful year in my life. As I closed out JROTC and DECA with a bang, going to Florida and earning an honor unit with distinction. My senior year was incredibly successful, even if you don’t think so. I hope to carry this success into my freshman year of college, and hopefully you still feel the success I feel today. I predict that I will be more physically fit and absolutely crush my first year of college. I predict that I was on the ranger team because of my knowledge and fitness. I also predict that I am already in talks with being a squad leader or something more for my freshman year. Hopefully I also earned a summer internship with cadet command or even jump school already. Also, I better have good grades or I’m going to be mad at you from the past. I know it's impossible, i'll find a way. P.S. Send an email to Mrs. Sandoval and thank her for making this letter. Call your parents, they probably miss you, and call Dahlia. Check in on your friends. Check in on the cadets you left behind too, help them if they want to join you at ROTC. From the past, Robert Davis

Epilogue

about 8 hours later

Dear senior year robert

There was a lot of things you were hopeful for that I didn’t do. You got to keep your scholarships though so don’t worry. I can’t...

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Ingog ceahgn whta lli sedyta ot trtsa, ays n,cdageh hwat entssintco, dan ot shwta. Of asnpt, ,lla eavh now snjea kkhia lislt onw itfsr ubt otl ew a i of evne emso. Gotta up it bti a eangch. ,orthf uoseh os ew taht and acn is mi nda hte algd tninoeuc bkca ta ot sism dda me eth tle orwk ew tasy at dtno hte noang cuhrhc. Tihw ta het uhccrh ,**a* at orkw you ujst and aco,smldnd i,mrhaa obj tbw elov jmae,s eht ltisl 'uyllo tno. Fiel hswi a amgzain ndki aws tog rmdo utb roaetmmo fo od i uoy oufseyrl. .
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Gcndaeh as rof thsaw. At dogin otl wohel ethgyveinr but a tiem emas we sillt hingont aer fo eth. And eyeeo'rnsv disa eboref is you gclleoe sretfa to rreasmt ouy uyo a,eglues orsgnert, colenol ltef tahn taht hte ibg. Otl is fo ouy eth dski ngoinht otuthgh ulloy eacrmpdo saw at awht emte ot mseo godni a layrle uas ereh. Od nt’od ,tghouh setb nede oyu to tsju hinrygveet uyor. Tndawe lgoingf i dan uoy **** taht teg ddi tub inot wrko tno wkno ot dtuspan. Ibwnger npveisee,x glof stdnapu si si txaneiy. Filt lshcyapi htan own roev at nda nda dagnie oreuy fesrat oyu rnu blae yuo veer orf uas, yrea fe,tnsis rhaivee oludc ot lb1s7 as eht. Eirthe us isllt fo nhu,geo uodrp ywa im not btu sit. .
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Rea rehet rfo lla fredin,s fo more and sitll iyrhas as tmhe idntast milfya gtuaohhl. Gte hmi tieewhsro twih if out selo podr hse anogn eepals hsi ,asu to oryeu spuh nad egrirfnidl to litls him. Nmesto idhlaa oyu thiring,v rouy nefi, broke rrignefild is up ihtw nda is. Ni esh ,nierc ihlwe ti fo oyu bset aepphn that reh dan i yeerv cmhu neo a nad hetrto si teh sgesu eyojn ees deirlrinfg ot tsgnih knwedee is s?satl? uyor enw lwihe. For bt,w ,kown ist eeyvonre edbuotd hatt i yb ikle hzraaicm yse uyo eewr ebign. Veniti uyo xett thnsgi yuro etdacs you t,hngis to eratg tills idd nda. Sahn si nda etg i dan erofft be ta of inojnig cna ctor basuece sua yats i eb lla uryo to. Buota cbka jrcto ot noggi i to ltka am lal ti. .
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Eyar tath didt’n in i ryuo chrus ftrsi i alidef ouy. Ryeuo ddtin relaed, aqsdu colhos a ginog ndtdi ont psiinenrth pmuj yuo beomce etg ot dan ouy na. Me eht den whe,omos prreuisds nda mad romf wlil od at pu oyu ngtiteg fi, i be stap. .
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Ouy otl ot i oew a. Few keam re'you eht gnoan osthe tlas chserhi ekesw mreesoim. Utb lodwu eewr i olt ow,n dna lw'onudt irtg i hneagc ffetor i eht fi tneeryfd,lfi ouy do a oyu ahd. Arf ti oyu a dna did o,lt twen. Od eht tis emas to urtn now ym. .
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P. S. Mi late ayyawns tno a oluly laybd twitren, i lanf,i stih ta tsi for its ees utb okwn its usytding hntgi adn ikel. Tivis yelsmf liwl wbt ndolavsa i. Lli yad heav edcta oogd you a. Rfo ufuert ertwi ma naogn tenroah the i letert iaang. .

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