A letter from April 2nd, 2021

Dear FutureMe, how's it going for you? Just few minutes ago I was wondering how I wondered about what life will be in 2020 when it was 2015-2016, it sometimes seems like extra far future with advanced technology every time (yet it does not). But actually what always impresses me is how much we change mentally, including our interests and character. Despite all that, I can say that I stil may relate to that very infantile version of me five years ago in many things: some mental bases always stay the same. I actually like how even then I was knowlegable about the "importance" of self-improvement (just a cultural construct, I suppose, but nevertheless interesting). I tend to look down to the five-year-ago version of myself, and, saying honestly, yes I have improved quite a bit -- But were I not slowly improving even in the past? Of course, me in 2015 was much less fond of things like science, study, and exercising -- but i can surely say that I was always attempting to gain new skills such as animation, modelling or programming (if I even dare call it that). Of course I was not consistent in the slightest and the result was close to zero, but this seems like an evolutional step before you start making great leaps while being more productive, much as the Europe had to come through hard Middle Ages while accumulating their surplus product to then dominate the world. I am wondering if you have plato'd or you are at your all-time-high? As for me, I don't really feel like having a revolution in my brain, but a rather quick evolutional development. Without forgetting, of course, periodical crisises and periods of lasiness that seem to be present in any human's live. What I just wrote is phylosophically heavily based on the ideas of self-improvement phylosophy and I don't even think it is right that I wrote it like that. In spite of it, I still kind of measure my life pleasure based on that ephemeric improvement thing. The good thing is that it has not become a point on its own and I have a clear vision of what I kind of want to become in a few years. Anyway, I wonder how dependant you are on social media compared to me in 2021 (I waste half of the day there). Also, I really hope you didn't burn yourself out in the university because, you know, THIS is the only way we can do good for the society, isn't it? I wonder how much travel you did since 2021.