Whatever you're doing, stop and read this.

Hey Elena. It's you, from the past. From 2021. I don't know if you will remember about this, but I think you will. We were really excited for this day (01/01/2021), 'cause we were going to write 3 letters for ourselves (one for next year, this one, and one for 2031)! Right now it's 16:10. I'm 16 and living in Brazil, where I always lived lol. It's so funny 'cause I had so many things that I wanted to talk about here, and now I don't seem to remember any of them. So! Let me start with last year, before I forget about it. 2020... what a ****** year. I'm sorry but it's true. I'm writing this on January 1st, so I hope 2021 is better. Last year you were really excited. You were finally meeting your sister's friend, Nina, from Germany. She was going to live here for a couple months, to visit your sister, to get to know Brazil and to learn Portuguese. You were really excited about that. When you met her, she was really sweet. You were obviously not that close, she's your sister's friend, not mine after all, but it was really fun. School started, first year of high school, huh! 6 more subjects, 50 more minutes of class... Everything was fine, until quarantine started in Brazil. My last day of school was on March, 16th. Exactly a month after classes started. Nina had to go back to Germany (she was staying until June), and online school started. At first I was lowkey happy. My school friends would talk to me on whatsapp, and I'd talk to my internet friends on insta or twitter. Normal. Online school got tough though. I was not learning anything, I had to google everything up and ask my friends for help. Well, my whole class was doing that, but still, it was bad. You did it though, you got your grades and moved on to the second year of high school (I cannot tell you how it was 'cause it hasn't happened yet). I'll give a point to quarantine though. You had a crush. A small, tiny crush on a boy from your class. J, if I may. You always found him cute, but never really cared. 2020 hit your feels, and you started liking him. And quarantine also messed you up, made you less shy and more talkative. So you interacted with him on twitter (Remember? "Have you seen twitter's new update?? If you reply to my fleet 'wanna date?' you get a boyfriend right away!" And I replied "Oh ****, I don't think my twitter has that..." and then he told you to try to update it and try again. So I replied "Okay, I think I got it! Do you wanna date?" And he said "I guess we are dating now!"). But what made you become friends with him was my whatsapp text, asking him for help in my math assignment (IDK EITHER, BUT IT WORKED). We startd talking and became closer. Sadly (or not?), I didn't like him anymore when we started talking. That was kinda good, 'cause he started dating a girl a couple weeks later. Woof. During that year you also started talking to another boy in your class (you became friends, which made us really happy since we were always really shy and never had that many friends). You were also interacting with some other classmates on insta (replying to their stories, etc). It was a truly good year in that part. OH! Let me also add my beautiful internet friends. During 2020, I had 8 internet friends. Celine and Christina (from Indonesia and Romania, unfortnately we don't talk anymore, we stopped talking in mid-2020, but the beginning was really nice), Lai (from the US, we still are friends now and I hope you are still friends with her when you read this), Susy (from Mexico, you talk to her everyday and you love her, if you are not friends anymore I will **** you I am not kidding), Gio (from Italy. You were really close to him at some points in 2020, but in other parts you were really distant. He's a nice friend, but I'm pretty much sure he doesn't really care about us? So it's fine if we are not friends anymore). Then the last 3... Shoeb and Kinsh (both from India). I met them on twitter, during 2020, and it was the best thing EVER. I love them both to *****, we rarely talk (just like me and Lai) but when we do it's so magical. If we are no longer friends, it's fine, but I'll be really sad to remember about them. And the last one, Glória. Oh Glo, your friend from São Paulo, Brazil. This one, you met personally on November 30th, 2019. I have never wanted to live in São Paulo that bad, just so I could see her. Sadly in the end of 2020 she MOVED TO BOLIVIA???? Argh, you may have seen her again (if you did, I hope you enjoyed it 'cause I'm DYING to see her), but I doubt that. Anyways, I really hope I'm still friends with these guys... What else can I tell you?? OH MY! Remember that boy from your class, H? The one you always had a crush on but never admitted, even to yourself? Yeah, you helped him in 2020. He asked (in our school groupchat on whatsapp) if anyone knew the pages we had to study for our Portuguese exam. Everyone ignored him (I laughed, but I felt bad). So when you got home from the market you looked for it, and you found it. With your shaky hands and (really fast) beating heart, you sent him, on private: "Hi H! I'm not sure about which topics we should study, but I know the first one is on page 31. Idk if that's helpful hahah". You turned the screen of your phone off, nervous. In just a few seconds, he replied with "Ohhh thank you! It actually did help haha, thank you fr." You said to him that if you found the other ones you would let him know, he agreed, and so you did. He thanked you again and that was it. Not much, I know, but it was really exciting considering the only other interaction you have had with him was on 2016, when you were fixing you Doctor Who notebook (with a The Walking Dead reference), he saw it and said, while smiling "Ohh, I see that reference there Elena!". I guess this is what I can tell you about 2020. I wish I could receive and email right now from you, telling me how my 2026 will be. Or at least if it was a good one. I guess I'll just have to wait to find out lmao. Did you get into that college you always wanted to? Or the other one that you also love? Are you now graduated in filmmaking, and are you an actress? Are you succeding? Are you happy? Are you dating? Do you have lots of amazing friends? Do you still live in Brazil? If so, is it in São Paulo? This is pretty much all I think about now. And by now I mean the whole past year. I hope you did it. Or you're making it. We are. I'm sure we are. I trust you. You are wiser, smarter and stronger than me now. I always had older friends, I guess that's why I trust you better than me haha. Although, if you made it, if you are wiser, smarter and stronger... it's 'cause I did something right, right? Or I did something wrong that led me to learning it. That's amazingly funny. I put the pressure of success on my future self, and then I threw it in me right now back. Lol. I love you lots, I know I trust you, and I think you trust me too. Believe me, I'll do my best to make these 5 years of difference between us to be amazing memories for you. When you read this and remember the memories we have, that for me are the present or the future now, I hope you'll be proud. I'll do my best for that. Be strong, be kind. Be you. Love, 2021 Elena <3