A letter from Sep 13th, 2021

Hey you, Right about now you should have just finished up your last year of Medical School. How was it? Was it as lonely as I think it is now? You have spent your whole childhood yearning to be an adult, impatiently waiting for the rite of passage that would grant you the respect and validation you so desperately sought. Is it everything you wanted to be? I have so many questions about how things will turn out, but above all else I hope you are happy. Let me give you some context, after all four years is a long time. Right now I am procrastinating writing a two page paper for our Medical Sociology class. We've recently lost two of our best friends and are looking forward to visiting Sam with George up at Bing next weekend. How is Sam by the way? I hope you've cherished that friend. I hope you've grown together and are ready to face the world. By my calculations he would have graduated a year earlier than you so I hope you have made time for him to come visit and vice versa. Besides Sam and George, I hope your friends are doing well, I hope you still have the same friends you have had. I hope you still remember it's the quality of friends, and not the quantity. If you still have at least one of the same friends, I want you to contact them right now and tell how much you appreciate them for staying in your life this long. I am curious to see who stayed and who left and especially what changed in the friendship. I hope you made good memories over the years with the friends you have now. I hope you got a real tight knit group around you, like we use to not so long ago (THC). I really want you to appreciate what little moments we have with friends, before they're gone. For the friends that left, I hope you're still on good terms with them. Don't burn your bridges, they have influenced you and kind of took a part in who you are today. I hope you found someone, someone who you trust, someone who will always be there for you. I hope she is your best friend. And hey, no judgments from me If you are single, I just hope you don't feel as alone as you feel now. I hope you aren't the same person that you are now, because that means you never experienced new things or stepped out of your comfort zone. I want you to have hope for the choices and decisions you choose to make in the future as I do now. I hope life has changed you for the better because of it. I don't want you to look back on life and regret not taking that opportunity or seizing that moment. Please don't live life with regrets of anything. Do it all if possible. Travel, love, cry, experience life's beautiful moments. Even if you fail, every choice you make will shape you into a different person. I hope you are happy, truly, genuinely happy. Happy with your life, your friends, family, happy with yourself. I hope you are successful with your career, life, social life. I hope you take risks and still end up happy, no matter what happened in the end. I hope you lost as well as found something. I hope you become happy with your choices, your goals, as well as your failures. Before I go, I just want to say that everything that has happened has lead you to this moment. Don’t change a thing. Everything worked out exactly as it should be. All the puzzle pieces fit, all the paths make sense. All the people were meant to be. All the successes and failures and heartwarming and heartbreaking moments were all worth it. No regrets. You were and are and have been and always will be yourself, and that’s what matters above all. I’m sure you’ve got a lot going on right now, and that’s good. Just don’t lose track of what’s important, what’s worth making time for. Sincerely, Adj, Your Past Self.