A letter from Jul 13th, 2021

Dear Skye, Happy birthday! Perhaps this letter will come as a comfort if everyone else has forgotten your day. Just know at least one person still remembered, and that was Skye from the past. If the time travelling device exists by then, would you want to travel back to when I was writing this in my room, at July 13, 2021, Chromecasting songs to your T.V. like you have for many nights, trying not to wake your girlfriend on Facetime. These days I've felt so safe in the blanket she's been providing. Soon, she might be leaving to another province. The blanket will be partially gone and I'm quite conflicted with that thought. I wonder if I look back at this 5 years from now, will I remember this as a small pebble we had to ride over, or was this a cliff we had yet to see? I overthink quite a lot, I hope at that point I calmed it a little more. I wish that she is still by my side to read this letter from the past. Laugh at how in love I am with her. My first love from 8th grade, my best friend for 4 years, and now my girlfriend. I hope one day to be able to wake up next to her. I manage to make everything I write include her, so now I will get back to topic. Are you burnt out from school right now? I might still be in school right now for nursing, if I didn't change my mind. Do you have any regrets with it? I hope at least you're happy with what you're studying. If you're unhappy, all I can really think to say is that I'm still proud of you for holding out this long. Take this as a sign. Interpret it how you'd like. Are you still on talking terms with your family? Are you still not out to your parents? I dread the day I have to tell them, but I know I have to. So, have you done it yet? I hope it wasn't too hard on your relationship with them, but I'm glad you got it off your chest. I guess 5 years from now, some memories are a bit blurry at this point, so I'll write about some of the highlights from this year: You got your license, hurt someone very dear to you unintentionally but managed to fix it, your sister got married, you turned 18, you graduated high school, and just today someone rear ended you while you were on the way home from your date. Some things that are trending while I'm writing this letter: anime, kpop, baggy clothing, tattoos and piercings, y2k fashion, valorant, pc building, tyler the creator/steve lacy type songs, basically anything that helps people forget about the still ongoing pandemic. The last thing I'll say is that I hope you are having as great of a year as I am. Happy birthday again. Hug those you love. Don't close up on people that care about you when you're struggling with yourself. I've worked on that dedicatedly this year, so don't regress. Life is so much more than what you confine yourself to, and I have her to thank for showing me that. Man you gotta marry that girl or something. (I hope we're still together by then, or else I'd just be rubbing salt in the wound huh? my bad lol) With love, Skye 2021