A letter from Jul 08, 2022

Dear FutureMe, hey! i write this from my bed. how ya doing. right now in your life you have a crush on david smullen. you hope you will see him in august, but who knows at this point. I hope you got to see him! i hope everything is going really well for you. If im not wrong, you should be just finished 6th year. mad. 3rd year was so difficult and not just because of the exams. august to november was the hardest part of our life to date (july 8th 2022) and i am so sorry but we are resilient now and able for so much. every day, i feel strong and ready and capable. i've already done so much this year that i could never have thought of doing. I'm rarely anxious but when i am i can cope, and everything is fine. it's summer and you are happy and well. I hope you in the future have stopped thinking so much of what other people think and i hope you are becoming your own real person. growing up is scary, but it's cool so far. there is so much i want to do and discover and places i want to go and people i want to find because i know my people are out there. maybe i've already found some of them but there are mosre out there. i just know it. anyways, aine, libby and co. are all doing well. the toft family recently purchased a swimming pool. hopefully we get the weather for it! i can't wait for granny and grandad to come home from australia. i miss them so much - and so does mammy. i've been house sitting for val lately, just minding dusty. i'ts a weird dynamic. he picks me up and drops me home cos mammy is working. he pays me well enough tho so it's whatever. i hope you have accomplished so so much. I mean, we already have! we met the president!! slay girl. ("slay" will probably be cringy in 3 years. sorry lol) things i hope you have done by now: kissed 2 people had a boyfriend and or girlfriend travelled have a job have a car and your licence seen david s again (sorry to bring him up if nothing happens, or if something bad happens) decided what you want to do in college, or if you're going at all graduated !!! done your LC went to a concert idk what else. i just hope you are happy and healthy. you better write one of these right now and send it to yourself in the future because these are cool. reading some letters from other people makes me think, because 3 years to me right now seems like so long - you will be so much older. but the time will fly - it already is. and this year we're going into transition year?!?!? that's so crazy it feels like no time has passed since first year, and yet it's the same time as will pass between now and whenever you read this. I barely felt the last 3 years. they have been disrupted due to the covid pandemic. i hope the next 3 years are good and full of life and love! i won't bore you or myself any longer. please be grateful for what you have and take care of yourself. i love you <3 aoibhe x