A letter from Jun 7th, 2021

Dear future self, do me the favor and read this alone. Happy birthday love <3 Ok let's start up with some questions. 1. How is it inside your mind? Are you happy? Healthy? Did you get what you wanted? 2. Is the world better or worse? Has society changed at all? Are we doing better as a collective country, as..the world? 3. Are you doing something you love and slowing down to enjoy the little things? 4. Where are you now and what are you doing? I hope its something cool. 5. How are mom and dad? Andd the rest of them 6. Have you fallen in love yet? With yourself or someone else? 7. Did you embrace who you are? Fully and unapologetically? 8. Did you ever travel alone like you wanted to? If yes, where and if you liked it do it again. 9. Did you ever follow up on your love for drawing? Did you find what you were looking for? Whatever it was. I hope you did. I hope you’re more confident now. More aware of yourself and those around you and that you’ve learned to accept yourself and not to dwell too hard on what others think because that’s where it gets sad and scary. I hope you know that you matter, you’re loved and that you can make it. I hope you remember the good, because there’s lot of it and I hope you hold onto it even through the bad. I hope you know that it’s okay to make mistakes and I hope that you will take it easy on yourself when you do inevitably make those mistakes. I hope you never let anything disrupt your happiness and that you’ve learned not to compromise yourself or anyone else. I hope you still enjoy being alone and I hope you know that it’s okay. Honestly you need it to learn more about yourself. I hope you’re surrounded by love not just from others but from yourself as well. I hope you surround yourself with people and things that you love. I hope you grow, change, learn and experience as much as you can and know that everything will turn out fine. I really really hope you’ve learned to love your faults. All of them. And the faults of the ones surrounding you because we’re all human after all. I hope you know that its okay to feel sad and lonely or angry and I hope you feel those things fully but that you don’t let it consume you or let yourself get lost in it. I hope you’ve found ways to deal with the little things. The ups and downs, the hard nights. I want you to slow down. To live life. To be present. To enjoy each moment for what it is, to take everything in before it’s too late. To say please and thank you and share gratitude and appreciation for everything and everyone around you. I want you to be more open to new things, ideas, perspectives, people and experiences and ways of loving people and letting them love you in return. I want you to love every part of yourself, your laugh, your body, your personality, your alone time, your good and bad moments and I want you to not shy away from yourself or your abilities because you’re too scared. I want you to fail and fail again andddd again, not only to show you that you can get up after falling but that there’s always something on the other side. I want you to learn to be comfortable with the uncomfortable. That being said, I also want you to take it easy on yourself and others. Don’t sweat the little things. I want you to learn to forgive those who need it and more specifically those who don’t and while you’re at it just show compassion and love all around. It helps. I want you to know I’m here with you. I hope life didn’t defeat you but I know it didn’t. you’re too strong for that. I hope wherever or whoever you are now, that you’re doing well. You deserve it all. All of these hopes, dreams and little things, and you are more than capable to achieve it. Keep pushing, keep trying, keep growing. Even though it’ll seem seamless as most of these things you wont notice changed or happened until you look back. I love you and I can’t wait to meet you.