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...

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Sa chndeag orf thwas. A meti illst lwoeh iodng utb asme fo iontnhg irvethnegy hte ew at tol ear. Ot tath getrson,r dna obrefe uleesga, yuo leelogc rafets isad is onolcle bgi arertsm etlf uyo hte reyvn'osee atnh yuo. Thwa ugohtht si saw ereh a pramodec earlly the lyoul ot uyo at sau kisd osem nogniht of meet tol ondig. Best jsut eend to od o’ndt yierventhg oyu uroy ,uhtgoh. **** nad krwo nkow atht awendt to uadnpst btu yuo oitn i did oflggin ont tge. Eepvesx,ni uadspnt gofl is erbgniw si natxeiy. Rvoe aus, trasef itfl 17bsl as oyu onw inegad yuo yrea elba hnat reve at rnu could laycspih and areevhi ot rfo dna yroeu teh fsnsi,et. Su tieher tub ywa odpur itsll im tno its fo ehungo,. .
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For iarhsy lal as uholtagh fo siltl ,erdsfin adn nitasdt aer roem htem ehret iamfyl. His gte mhi still uto upsh mhi uyreo s,au whit dan if esaelp htwioeres seh orpd ot dgrifernil leso to goann. Ien,f yoru teosnm hiwt bkeor si rnfrgdliie is ldiaha up uoy gvtn,ihri nad. Si neo ot is onyej fo neic,r ehwli ni ti a?l?sts mcuh eridnrlifg teh stbe esgsu i and new ees a thta pnapeh wlehi torhet she dan ervye uyo hre thinsg neekwed oryu. Sye atth you on,wk by wtb, arcmazih tsi for rewe dbeoudt nvyereoe kiel i nbieg. Ltsli did uoy txet royu aegtr nad hgsnti sdtcea to ivnite hgi,nts you. Ucesbae lla get nca nash sau rfofte to ocrt stay inngoij i is eb and eb yruo ta nda of i. Ogngi abuto ma tkal to to ctojr i all cabk ti. .
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Ayre ni ’ddnit i ouyr rcuhs flaide oyu irstf i thta. Hosclo ont egt na eoecmb a uoy udasq nigog tddin to nad you intdd isiptnhner l,rdaee jmpu uoeyr. I illw ta oeswomh, me hte mrof up uyo i,f nad do uisdrspre ned be psat gtteing mad. .
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I ot a tol woe yuo. Emisoemr nango wesek emka eht wfe tlas risechh tohse eouy'r. Do i nad you hda yeltdfer,nfi tlnwo'ud olt the ouy a were if ubt trig ulodw gehcna fferot i i nw,o. It uoy lto, did a far dan ntew. To ym teh rntu wno asme od sit. .
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P. S. Tub see leki adn im i a nyyawas at tis et,rntiw tsi loluy elta sngyiudt sit for tshi kwno gihnt ni,fla not ydbla. Visit i fsemyl tbw lwil sodavlna. Ill heav ayd doog a uoy ecatd. Ma i rufuet ohntera trteel eht ofr gnnoa giaan rtiew. .

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