A letter from Oct 16th, 2021

Dear FutureMe, Hey. I’m writing this with courage sleeping by my side, and Gabi asleep on the phone. I’m supposed to be cleaning but I saw this website linked on a Reddit thread (procrastinating as usual.) You always thought these kinds of this were cool, writing letters to the future you or whatever, but you were always too lazy to do it. Well here we are. Let’s see. Your favorite songs right now are Taco Bell from That Kid (the remix) and Cartoon Network from Black Dresses. You’ve been listening to a lot of Charly Bliss too. You turned 21 yesterday at the time of writing this. You’re not too happy these days. Everyday is a struggle is seems right now, between dealing with old childhood trauma and general relationships with people in your life. You haven’t talked to your family, outside of chris, in a while. You’re angry that they don’t treat you the best all the time. Did you ever get therapy for this stuff? Did you ever get help for the stuff you went through? Did you ever start accepting yourself beyond the surface? Speaking of which, did you ever get top surgery like we’ve been wanting to? Did you start T? I know lately we’ve been thinking about it, but haven’t been too sure. Hows your art doing? Haha- Ever hit 10k on Twitter? Did you ever get anatomy and gesture drawing down? Do you still draw mica and the gang? Do you still keep up with Leech and Vera and Tai and Javi? How’s courage? I’m l petting him right now, he’s really sleepy and twitching around haha. Are you a vet tech yet? Did you decide to do something else? Lately we’ve been struggling with finding work, and it’s been contributing to a lot of our feelings of resentment and hopelessness. Also also- how’s the covid stuff? Ever get rid of that?? Jeez. It sucks right now dude. Gabi says it’ll get better. Did you and Gabi ever met up? Are you still together? Even if you aren’t, make sure you send her this email!! If you are and she’s reading this: hi gabi- we’ve been together for a long time! If you aren’t, then, well, this is kinda awkward huh? Haha not really, I know you guys are still cool with each other no matter what. If things have been tough with each other- give each other a chance! Go on a nice date or something. Or call and check up on each other. Have a good talk for me. Sorry this is a bit jumbled, I’m all over the place, arent I? Well, I hope things are going well for us. I hope we learned to drive and got a nice job and started our transition. Changed our name and reconciled with our past. If you haven’t accomplished all this stuff- what the hell are you doing dude! Haha just kidding. Give yourself time. Things are gonna be alright. Chin up. We’ve made a lot of progress. I’m proud of you. Now go make future-future us even prouder. And hey!!! Assuming the best…… give courage a big hug and kiss for me!!!!