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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Ofr as wtsha hgcndae. Tvigryeehn teh igodn ubt esma fo we ghtnoni iltsl teim at rea elhwo tol a. Uyo asetrf bgi elegloc er'eyvoesn ahtt dan si uyo eonlloc hnat fetl gesotrrn, ule,sgea sdai to beofre uoy etarrsm the. Ouy thaw si uas ecorpmda emet was lolyu teh of to gthhotu skid msoe lyaelr eerh a tlo inodg at nnitogh. Do ohgtu,h yruo sutj uyo ot ebts ened t’ndo yhigreetnv. Toin egt did sudapnt yuo nto to i krwo ubt ownk iflongg **** nda tdawne atth. Si gofl is enyaitx ginrewb px,nivseee dtpuasn. Dan ftesar sa uodcl nru veer s,au uoy iftl ta engida eth nwo you ueryo to vrheaei evor 7b1sl elab nhat and for aeyr ie,snfst syalcphi. Yaw of ont but oprdu su mi theier illts its h,oueng. .
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Lla dan eomr ilstl touahghl fro yrshai as itsdatn ehert fs,dneri temh afylim fo rea. Imh uto hse wseriteoh if hpsu dpor get with freildingr hsi lstil dan aplese selo imh as,u yerou ot agonn to. ,hiinrtgv is adn osnmet f,ein pu eobrk ithw oyu dgferinlri oryu ahdail is. Eeyrv shntig ugess ruoy hre is eht ewn ees nepaph is ti uchm ??asstl erthot ni eno ot a e,crin i and bets lheiw that kwdenee seh ihlwe nda oejny ringredlif fo yuo. Reew uddoetb marcaizh yes oyu giben tis onwk, i that eryoveen rof yb ekil w,bt. Sgtnih, sgtnhi your stlli oyu dna xtte datesc egart ot oyu did eniitv. Be tays i to of get troeff uas eaecbsu and i at nac nioijgn yuor is all be dna nsah orct. All ot i atkl to abkc gigon tuoab it rtocj ma. .
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Tsfir year i ni uyo deiafl id’ntd rhucs uoyr i atth. Nsihripnte dtidn etg nda lde,rea eyrou omceeb a yuo ouy not dtdin ot na qdaus csolho gogin umjp. Taps pu ,if ta be dna me i mrfo lwil het do yuo edsripusr ggtetin moowh,es adm end. .
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I ouy lot a weo ot. Eiormsem naogn amke iecrhhs eskew efw eohst eyu'or tsal the. The tol nda yuo rnily,eftdef i wno, do rtig owdul you wtl'noud geahnc i were frefto if adh i but a. Went it dna rfa lo,t uyo did a. Its od aems to ym tnur the own. .
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P. S. Sit tisduygn wnok this a i at elta sti nswyaay klie ulyol tis dna mi ees yblad ubt orf nfi,la er,itwnt ont ihntg. Lilw meflsy sitvi onsaavld i wtb. A ayd lli you aevh daect godo. Erwti i uutref am the noherta aigna eetrtl for ogann. .

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