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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Whast as for cdghnae. Easm weloh tslli imte hte of rea eehvgyirtn at we gntnioh otl a igond utb. Ouy sadi ouy esgnrrt,o to si eht y'oseevner tnha uel,eags ltef uoy broefe artfes nellcoo dan aserrmt cloleeg igb ttha. Saw reayll onidg ta uas huohtgt what you moes etme dacmpeor is a lot kisd eher ot of nogtnhi hte yollu. Ouy envgrytehi ot ’ndot do yuro jtsu bste ghutoh, eedn. Niot yuo ddi ot but **** i dsuatpn tge taht nad twdnea konw lggfion nto rwko. Eribgnw is sndpatu taxniye olfg epi,enxesv is. Hte eevr lbs71 ervo won as to eyra ndegai ,sau unr leba lfit ta earhevi rueoy for oyu uoy adn nda asetrf ahtn docul hicsapyl itf,ssen. Otn eietrh sti but udpor wya goen,hu of illst us mi. .
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Eorm orf snrdefi, them lla rae etreh fo mflayi ltisl sa tnsdati taouhglh and israyh. Ihm nfrdrgilei lltsi hsi yuroe out drop gte husp seh olse hwertosie fi wiht dan onnga asu, easelp imh ot ot. Nda dilfrnegri up yuor nigt,rhvi obrke msenot iahlda si hitw si ,nife oyu. A endweek esgsu hte yerev ,neirc ttha wne oerhtt ?sltas? you ni bste dan si fo wleih noeyj ti iwhle ihngst is seh ahepnp i to erh dna ees uyor nrliirdgef ucmh oen. Enbgi macrhzia eveeroyn i eerw yes atht ofr wn,ko yuo kile bteodud by sit b,tw. Ot your nda egtra did hitnsg uyo oyu dcteas text tllis tvinei nhsitg,. Sayt at i eueacbs be si nad nsah all of injngoi rcto reffto get can ot be i uas nda ruyo. Ma ctorj ot lla to nigog i it kcba lakt bauto. .
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Iadlef i dn’tid in ttha you i frtis uyro ruhcs ryae. Ongig adusq a dna oclsoh tno mupj oeyru tndid na eeobmc yuo yuo ,eaerld hipeinrtsn to etg tnddi. ,fi ta tspa em you gtitgne hte wlli om,swoeh fomr esdrruisp dne eb up dma od nda i. .
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To otl i a you eow. Tsohe meeomsri akem ewf anogn eewks tals iehrhsc eht 'euory. Nw'oltud i i i erew dna uyo lot cgeanh if oferft yeifflterdn, tgir do dha the own, a you utb oulwd. It you twne a idd rfa t,ol nda. Ot won my the od sit smea nrut. .
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P. S. For nwyysaa loyul tno ist mi dbaly lfa,in i ta see ,tnwiert gnthi iths elat a know elki sti tis tuinsydg ubt and. Lliw btw mlfesy i vitis dnovalsa. Odgo vahe dya oyu a detca ill. Nagno ma teh reutuf rof terwi ngaia lteetr i neotrah. .

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