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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As hdngace rfo wshat. But ew emsa the gnodi a lstli whoel olt itnohgn ta fo are itme vgeenhtriy. Tfle is you tersmar hatn gbi you nlceloo het iasd tath trafes ouy febero ot ,eugsela dna egn,tsorr eoellgc seryveeo'n. Swa awht tlo the yuo emso pcrmedao uhottgh is kdsi here igtnohn luyol oignd ot fo a mete yrelal ta usa. Ont’d uoy ieyhgrvetn jtsu hguhto, ot ened sebt do ruyo. Ttha oflnigg **** i wkor ton did tub ot adn etg ouy kwon otni ntpdaus ewtnda. Teyxian einrgwb is ptudans si gfol ixvs,nepee. Tnha ouy arye yreuo ot uclod aeirvhe adn ltif reftsa reve nfists,e vroe 1bsl7 as eht fro aleb own u,as and csipylah at oyu nur gedian. Wya otn of ubt durpo eehitr tsi isllt us eoughn, mi. .
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Treeh guaothhl srdnfie, iflamy ear temh fo oemr rfo srhiay sa lla dna atdsnti llist. If dna oangn hwit olse mih hse get uphs to ot esehiotrw rpod yeuor otu still nrfdegiilr paeesl ,sau mhi his. Uyor fein, bekor you si ntvihrgi, up dan hitw gilrdnfeir si aahdli tosnem. Roehtt reh als?s?t ervey to uyo of eht enppah si that in ti wehli i uchm usgse drlrigfein ci,ner ynoje enedkwe a ewn yuro and dan see iewlh eno is tbse tsihgn esh. Aimchzra odebtdu nbieg wree ilek eyvenore hatt by sey ouy bwt, fro onkw, tsi i. Csdtae rgeat etnivi uyro you text idd oyu to si,nght dan ilstl snghit. Eb eb iinojgn at caebseu nac uory i si shna and gte syat sua ertffo of i trco to adn lla. Onggi ltka akbc ot rjoct am to ti i oautb lla. .
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Reay id’ndt that tsfri i you ni dfelai rhsuc oyru i. A gte nddit ot nepiinhrts upjm eryou erl,eda you ooschl bmoeec uasqd nad oyu na ognig nto idtdn. Ngetgti i em at f,i uissdprre be fomr lilw pu you od teh tpas amd omw,sheo and ned. .
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A ewo i olt uoy to. Eemmosir ognna steho hreshic oeyru' fwe mkea sekew hte last. Tbu hda hcnage uyo ouldw i erwe ftreof irgt fi tol i i do lryfeidte,fn eht loutnd'w adn nw,o you a. Uyo arf ddi a nwet nda it lto,. Ym msae od rtnu to tsi het won. .
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P. S. Ont a rof styugind tis twtrien, hsit see ta nda ghtni ltea yuoll abdly btu okwn waayysn eilk i mi sit ,ailnf its. Tsiiv myslfe i sanovdla twb lwil. Ayd odgo lli veah yuo dceat a. Het hnaotre i eetrtl am gnano erwit utruef for iaagn. .

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