A letter from June 20th, 2020

Dear FutureMe, it's you from five years in the past, what are you up to now? Are you in college, your dream school? Or are you traveling, perhaps a dream location? Whatever your doing I just hope your happy (: Here is what is going on now, it is June 20th, and I'm writing this on a hot summers night in Florida as I lay in my bed and contemplate life...lol Everyone is doing good, Mom and Kevin keep busy most of the days, Mom mostly looks for jobs and Kevin mostly finds way to consult her about her lack of offers... anyway, I go outside and play with Jake occasionally, but because of Coronavirus we can't do much...I hope things get better... I am finally starting to feel like a teenager, I'm getting my license next week and I go to the beach with Lauren, Riley and Mallory very often! I miss Kaylee a lot though and I wish we could see each other soon, but I hope you get to visit her more often than I do now! p.s please keep in touch with everyone! I know its hard but, if you've lost touch please take this as a sign to reconnect! Anyway, I just wanted to send you this from your 16 year old self to remind you of your dreams... I feel like I can be easily derailed at times and so here is your reminder... Continue to chase your dreams! Im still kinda figuring out mine...but im sure your making more progress than me! So please...chase them, become a artist or graphic designer or marine biologist or Chinese translator....become whatever you want... and never let anyone diminish your dreams and ambitions! Also, please don't forget to live in the moment and live everyday with no regrets, I recently watching this amazing show called Orange and id really like you to rewatch it...not for the characters or even the meaning of the show itself but, because of the feeling it left in your heart...that feeling...is something I try to never forget, because my dream is... to evoke such an inspirational, life changing, feeling onto someone else... to change someones life for the better... Maybe this all seems silly to me in the future, but looking ahead, you are somewhere inside me, the grown me, the aged me, the me that is hopefully more wise and more aware of the world than 16 year old me... overall, if anything read this message and take away this... everyday I feel like i'm getting older and older... and I want to write down my ambitions now before they become clouded by the grown up world of todays society... My hope is that you'll read this and it will at least make you smile, because as I write this at 11:09 on a hot summers night I will be thinking of my future self and hoping that she is living out her days happily, to the fullest and with no regrets!