A letter from Dec 22, 2022

Dear Ben, Happy Birthday! How you doin' bud? Any chance you graduated at fourteen and a half, just like you wanted? Remember when you sent this? ****, do you even use this email anymore? I hope you do. I hope you get this email and think, "****, those big goals don't seem too far away now. I'm pretty close to what I wanted." Hell, maybe you won't even see this until those goals really are accomplished. I know I was harsh, but it was worth it, right? Either way, I'm proud of you man, and I hope you can be proud of yourself too. "History repeats itself, in both large and small ways. Why not learn from those mistakes?" -You, when you were 13 years old.