i hope you are better than when you wrote this lol

FutureMe, I plan to get this letter in 5 years so that will be April 29, 2026. At the rate you are at now- high school is over (sad) and you are finishing college. I hope you are still learning to be a teacher, it has been your life long dream for as long as I can remember. This is cringe and I am sorry but I hope in some way this letter can let you reminisce and smile just a little bit. 20 more days of junior year left. Thank you God. I am so ready for summer and I really do hope to make this one that I don't forget. Junior year has taught me a LOT and not even school stuff ahhah. I have learned to just stop caring in general. No one's opinion matters; excepts Moms most of the time :/ I am super excited and ready for senior year. I hope everything is back to normal... i hate the masks. For college I am still hoping to attend the University of Indiana and I will be pretty upset if I don't end up there. I hope you got yourself a state ring. I firmly believe that we have the talent and we can do it but its a matter of IF we want to lol. I love it but I will be so glad when it is over. Basketball has been apart of my winters for the past 10 years and I am so ready for a break. I hope you have healed and are happy. It broke you for a couple months and you weren't the same bubbly spirit that you normally were. Recently, it is hurting less and less. He is happy with a new girl and I am honestly happy for him, but I can't wait to find mine. I think I deserve that much. The whole family went over to Grandma's last week when the cousins were in town. It made me so happy to see everyone and Grandma especially. She turns 87 this year, wow! It hurts that one day I will have to live without her. She is strong, courageous, smart, and so faith filled. I want to go to church with her one time. I just need to find a time to go in my busy schedule. I drove by Grandpa's house for the first time since I got my license. I bawled the entire time. It hurt that I couldn't remember where he lived but when I pulled up I saw the past 12 years of my life in about 4 seconds. The birthdays, the dinners, the swing set, Christmas, family, and him - i saw it all. I miss him a lot. I think about him a lot. I hope he is proud of who I am. I hope they both are. I wish I had the chance to meet Grandma. I am told I look just like her and I can't explain the joy that compliment gives me. I know they are proud of Mom. I am so proud of her and she misses them immensely. I miss them immensely. One day closer... Before I end this letter, here are some things that high school has taught me and I hope that you still follow some of these: it is totally okay to make a mistake but never the same one twice, in your head you make it out to be at least 10x worse, it really is what it is, you cannot control everything, once the Empty light comes on you should fill up lol, be careful who you trust, be patient and kind, and to pray to God when you are thankful too. I hope the 22 year old me that finds this letter is forgiving, trusting, kind, pure, hopeful, and most of all happy. No matter where you end up or how or why or who - the 17 year old that writes this is proud of you. Proud of what you have done, proud of what you have overcame, and proud of all that you have and will accomplish. stay true to the pure heart of yours and as we have unfortunately have had to say a lot lately "stay safe", 17 year old you.