A letter from Jun 29th, 2021

Dear Cate from the future, I am writing you this letter from our parents home - which I still call MY home but I sincerely hope you're not still living here, cause I read on a tweet yesterday: "living in your parents' house is free bc you pay with your soul" (lol). It is the end of June, year 2021, so it means one year and a half since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic, crazy isn't it? Please tell me there are no more pandemic in the future and the earth is still alive and functioning cause now when our generation thinks about the future, we think of a post-apocalyptic scenario: climate change, new viruses, plastic everywhere etc etc (well, actually some people even think about alien invasions, you don't believe in it now but who knows, maybe in 5 years... Lol). Anyway I wanna tell you what happened in these last days. So a quick recap: - yesterday France unexpectedly lost the Euro match against Switzerland; - yesterday is also the day you came back from France after a 4 days staying at Christophe's home which went ******* well -and everytime you're surprised about how well and smoothly it goes - but this time was even better cause finally stuff were re-opening again, so you were able to grab drinks in a Terrasse avec des autres personnes (remember the mexican woman "I am a capitalistic"?), to go climbing in the gym, you even did Karting for the first time (you arrived last) and Accrobranche (so fun!!); - today you had an exam and in few hours you'll go to the river with Alice (I hope you're still very close friends, don't **** it up cause she's amazing!!). It feels weird to even type it but you are 29, jeez! I hope these 5 years made you grow as a person, made you wiser and less susceptible to what people think about you, made you feel less insecure about your physical appearance. And hopefully you are not an adult who's dead inside, you're still active, you don't live to work and you don't want to be stressed because of it. Now you are in love with Chris and everything is beautiful, you had never been in love before and you didn't even believe it was possible for you to find someone who makes you feel this way. He really is the best boyfriend. Are you still together? Did you finally meet his family and friends (something that now really scares you and makes you anxious)? Are you still in love with him? And if yes, does it feel different or it's still as exciting as it is now for me and as it has been since the last two years? ****, it feels scary to think of a future without him cause now he really is so unbelievably important and even the thought of losing him makes me feel a pain I never felt before. I read this on an article "People get it into their heads that they can't enter into a relationship unless they can picture it lasting 'forever,' when really nothing is forever. To quote the great James Baldwin: "Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?"". I agree with this, so even if now you're reading this and for whatever reason it made you feel sad to be reminded of him, just know that you loved him and he loved you, you cared for each other, you made each other feel like there was no problem whatsoever; when you were together what really mattered was the present, there were no problems, no worries, you both felt free. If you don't feel as happy as I feel now, just know that you did, so it's possible and very likely you will again. Yours truly (like, literally), Cate from 2021