A letter from Apr 05, 2024

Dear FutureMe, What a life you have lead. You have done, experienced, enjoyed and endured what some only dream and have nightmares of. You have traveled extensively, stood upon a grand stage in front of thousands, have been immortalized by your appearances on news, television, newspapers, magazines and books. How many people do you know that can say the same. You have had so many different jobs, occupations and adventures, you have ran the gambit of doing just about everything there is to do. You have been homeless, been wealthy, been up down, and around more blocks than the postal service. Now you are in a place you predicted you would be in over 20 years ago, based on the belief that you would see the end of days in your lifetime. Since then so many crazy, amazing and scary things have occurred that you are at times both more self assured, and absolutely terrified about yourself than you can even imagine. You have discovered that true wealth lies not in what you have, but in who you have. Discarding the pursuit of acquisition and pursuing a life of accomplishment through serving the greater good has been your best move yet. You now know that your family, those you hold dear, are your true assets. The love of your children and grandchildren, the loyalty lf your acquired family, and the respect of your community have proven to be far more valuable than anything any currency of the world could provide. The simple life you now live is one full or richness, warmth, love and admiration. The desire to possess mansions, sports cars and other extravagant things has fallen away being replaced by the desire to help insure the betterment of your community, your life, and that of your children and their children. Comfort is taken in knowing your great grand children will know of you through stories passed on to them by their father. Never in your life did you think this would be your destiny, not like this for sure. A historian that failed History in high school, an inventor, an art aficionado that once poked fun at the artistic community. The lesson to be learned is, don't ever short change yourself by eliminating possibilities. You are setting the delivery date for this to the last day of 2025. If you get to read it, you were wrong and will have to again evaluate events and information to hopefully decipher what the future holds. If you do not read it however, chances are you will not even remember you wrote it, for it will not matter in the least. You are strong, prepared, intelligent and now disciplined to be able to handle either the success, or the disaster that lies ahead. No matter what you have had a life well lived. One that is admired, envied, discounted, and at times held up as an example for others to follow. No one truly knows what the future has to hold as those variables are always in flux. For whatever it has to hold, you are sure and confident that you will be ok. Good luck to you who is me. Can't wait to see what we look like by then. Oh and stop getting involved with women and just date, go out, have fun, but never forget all the reasons and experiences that made us single.