A letter from May 07, 2025

Peaceful right?

Dear future me, Right now, I’ve received two scholarships to ASU, most notable of which being the three-year army ROTC scholarship. I hope your first year in Senior ROTC was amazing and stellar. Just last week I retired from being battalion commander and took the first steps towards the big army. As you're wrapping up your freshman year of college, I hope you kept the scholarship benefits and didn’t do anything stupid. My world right now is a lot of events and things. I own a lot of ASU clothes and khaki pants that I hope you still own. I live between both my mom and my dads house. I’m sure now that you have your own dorm, with your own stable living space, that you don’t miss the back and forth. Graduation is a week away. Right now, I’m doing a whole lot of nothing. I dedicated a majority of my time towards JROTC and DECA, and now that I am finished with that it’s time to pick up some personal hobbies. My hope is that in the summer, or your summer before college, that I get into golfing, and stand-up comedy. I also want you to focus a lot on physical fitness, but i'm sure by the time you get this letter you’re already an absolute unit. All my family is in my life right now, and so are my good friends, Dahlia, Yahir and Montse. Make sure to check up on them, especially Dahlia since she’s the furthest away. Hopefully you maintain regular contact with them. Hopefully you have the same girlfriend but if not, that sucks for you, because I have them right now, loser! This year was the most eventful year in my life. As I closed out JROTC and DECA with a bang, going to Florida and earning an honor unit with distinction. My senior year was incredibly successful, even if you don’t think so. I hope to carry this success into my freshman year of college, and hopefully you still feel the success I feel today. I predict that I will be more physically fit and absolutely crush my first year of college. I predict that I was on the ranger team because of my knowledge and fitness. I also predict that I am already in talks with being a squad leader or something more for my freshman year. Hopefully I also earned a summer internship with cadet command or even jump school already. Also, I better have good grades or I’m going to be mad at you from the past. I know it's impossible, i'll find a way. P.S. Send an email to Mrs. Sandoval and thank her for making this letter. Call your parents, they probably miss you, and call Dahlia. Check in on your friends. Check in on the cadets you left behind too, help them if they want to join you at ROTC. From the past, Robert Davis

Epilogue

about 8 hours later

Dear senior year robert

There was a lot of things you were hopeful for that I didn’t do. You got to keep your scholarships though so don’t worry. I can’t...

Otrc it hsrcu is hthtgou oyu asleltr eikl wuldo ron ddi uyo ti asy ro iqtue aanzgm,i. Yuo uoy ************ uhpussp ouhed’slv kisynn ndeo moer. You to bad smrpeio fo vahe rylsefuo ot etmi gthsni a dan at,hbi isht y,rae erilevedrndu lpelsicyae. Abeov era 3 we rdagse a apsubr ubt rea my. Agp 0. .
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Etsyda ays anhgec ot whta to tt,ars ggion ill thasw hwat he,dgnca adn setno,csnit. Tbu sa,pnt first fo akkih evah otl of ,lla wno i a nwo ew nvee nsaej esmo lslit. It eanhgc a tbi pu agott. To atht dan ngano em os dlga lte we ew teh im back si add the uehos ctneinou het nad at ucrhch saty at odtn isms wrko nca htfro,. Wbt irahm,a eth ouy *a**, tno korw at ol'uyl je,sma hcruch at lvoe wthi isllt ,odcdnmsal dna het boj ujst. Mmtoeroa ndki od gto i naagmzi of suloeyrf a shwi omrd saw eifl btu uyo. .
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Wthsa as ofr neacdgh. Ta ntohing isllt tigrnehevy rae tol ogind a we fo sema tbu hte owehl mtie. Nlceool ouy you usa,egel ibg eflt is adn eht ot oeeny'resv ttah llecoeg etsmarr idas atsefr anht ouy orfebe rers,tgno. Eth etme kisd was of is yuo a at eehr sua aylelr lot noigd ahwt smeo olluy gohhttu ihtnngo ot corapedm. Stju to do oruy heteyvnrig setb otd’n you dnee tu,hhog. Otn egt dna ot htat ouy kwno i rwok lgnifgo itno pdstnau dwneat idd **** tbu. Si eveip,enxs pantuds si exyitna lofg nriegwb. Vero eth unr oyu iste,fns rvee afestr au,s tlif you ueyro l7bs1 tanh adn arveehi dluoc now as ayer isahlypc ot ofr ta ndieag nda leba. Sit rodup ethire fo ywa ubt mi lslit ton us ,gneouh. .
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Lal roem ofr idnrfes, of olghhtau rea ahryis iylmaf heter mteh as natdist isllt adn. Youer esh peesal llsit otu rodp iegnflrdir to shi hmi fi nagon eols u,sa dna get hspu wtih ot mih wteseiorh. ,fein pu yuo eostmn lrreiifndg is t,hvginri your eorkb iwth is nad haadli. A tsbe snhgit wen uoy het igdrerlnfi reevy dkeeewn si ahtt ees to ti s?s?alt ni and eohrtt ehs i one lheiw si ugess of while yrou ppanhe inec,r hmuc dan rhe ojeyn. Like yb orf ernoveey sit tbw, icarmhaz wn,ko dduobet eerw ttha ngieb i yes you. Ouyr iitven sgn,tih idd nhtgis adn to xtte uyo arteg csdeat llist uyo. Nda nac uroy ta fo eb si ot lal ongiinj asu tffore anhs i sabecue i troc nda eb tge ysat. I ot ma ioggn ackb alkt crotj taobu ot it lal. .
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Uyor aeyr edfail in dn’tid tath surhc you i i tsrif. Eryuo otn uyo nad gonig uoy lae,rde saduq cmboee sniirpethn etg ddint na lhsooc a pjum idndt ot. Hte gtteing uoy fi, sapt ormf i we,hosom up em end mad ta be dan rrusdsipe od lliw. .
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Ot a oyu oew lot i. Wseke tseoh iescrhh tsal rmmiosee onang wfe aemk the eruy'o. Fnyelriet,df ,own i oerftf i dnoulw't oyu hte but hda lwoud cagneh erwe tlo i do dna uoy grit fi a. Did rfa nwet and it uoy a ,tlo. Od tis teh to wno tunr msea my. .
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P. S. Ont tis ladyb i,lafn nad kwon tiwnrte, tlae nghti anyswya ubt uyllo mi its sti ta a rfo ihst eikl ugnitdys see i. I isvit lesmyf wlil anlavdso tbw. Uyo ogdo ill dteac dya a eavh. Etrlet orf eht am gaina nogna i euutfr wtrie ehroatn. .

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