A letter from March 1st, 2021

Hello 2025 Erika, to be honest writing a letter to yourself is harder than writing a letter to another person. Anyways, I’m doing pretty good at the moment, I’ve been practicing a lot of piano and I’m starting my first Chopin piece! I’m also trying to get better at figure skating (though I can’t really do anything impressive there lol). I still haven’t decided for sure what I want to do, when people ask I usually say I want to pursue geology because that is the only thing I’m considering that won’t get me a million questions, it’s between geology, music, and graphic design. The reason I tell people I want to pursue geology is because the only question people ask is “what’s that?” whereas if I tell people I want to pursue music I get not only get questions but other remarks such as, “how are you going to make money?”, “Isn’t that a risky choice”, and “music is a hobby, not a job”, anyways, I know by the time you get this, you’ll probably have decided what to do with your life, and I hope you are happy with your decision. Another thing I wanted to include in this letter is my current playlist, and if there is one thing I know I will find interesting in 5 years, it will be my favourite music from 5 years ago, and spoiler warning, it’s mostly classical music. Some of my favourite pieces right now are Chopin’s nocturne no.20 in c-sharp minor, Debussy’s Clair de Lune, Beethoven’s Moonlight sonata (dang, I seem to like pieces played in c-sharp minor lol), Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers (don’t judge, I don’t care if it is technically a Christmas song, it’s good), Chopin’s Nocturne op.9 no.2, Vivaldi’s Winter, Chopin’s “Winter Wind” etude, and Chopin’s “Raindrop” prelude, so there’s a lot of Chopin (duh) and my music taste has probably evolved from now until 2025 (in your opinion at least, I think all of these pieces are immaculate). I’ve also been watching a lot of animes, I have a problem where I’ll start a new one and then start another one before I get to finish the last one which kinda sucks because then I don’t end up knowing how they end (plus I get spoiled occasionally), anyways, 2 that I’ve been watching a lot and trying to finish are Deathnote and Your Lie in April. Anyways, life in 2021 is definitely not completely normal, we are still all in isolation and it's already been almost a year since the pandemic started and I’m not surprised that it is still going because of those idiot anti-maskers and conspiracy theorists. Other things are happening as well in my life, I’m not sure but I think Matt and Sandy are thinking of moving which sucks because it’s been nice having them and the kids living so close to us, which we weren’t used to until they moved to Kamsack, I’m also considering spending the summer in either Pender Harbour with Auntie Cheryl or in Winnipeg with Mike and Nancy (depending on Covid rules, of course). And things happening in the world rather than just my life have also been interesting (as American politics tend to be). Trump got voted out of office recently and incited some riots at the capitol, now Biden is the president of the United States. The Covid vaccines have also started to roll out though there is a shortage in Canada, no one in our family has gotten one yet (I don’t think so, at least) but I think that’s ok since we should let the people who are at higher risk get them first, anyways, that’s my life in 2021. For our project, I also need to write a prediction for the future, or what 2025 Erika’s life will be like. I think that at this point in time I’ll at least have an idea of what I want to do with my life, I’m probably going to go to university even if I decide to do music so that I at least have a fallback (or to study music). I also think that whether I decide to pursue it or not I will still be playing piano, and hopefully will have improved a lot since 2021. I also think that by then I won’t be living in Canora anymore, actually, to be honest, not only do I think I won’t be living in Canora, I hope I won’t be, I don’t want to be, I don’t know why but I’ve never actually liked Canora. At this point in time, I also hope I will have started making a plan to travel the world, and I sure hope you haven’t abandoned that dream by then. I also think that by then Covid won’t be as much of an issue, to be honest, I think doing university online would prevent me from a lot of life experiences. Well, that's it for the letter, I hope this actually gets to you, Sincerely, 2021 Erika.