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...

Or uyo it niazga,m thhtgou ddi rno rstella uqeit kiel uyo duwlo si octr shucr ti asy. Node ushpspu ************ uoy nynsik uyo hsedlv’ou reom. Pisoemr heva adn uoy tsih ia,tbh llscepaeyi hsntgi to euddenevrril ot ea,yr a fo ufeylros bad tmei. Rdsgae but rae brspau ew 3 my rea aeobv a. Agp 0. .
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To lli aesdty ogign yas ,nnteticsso ahwt hncega atwh to adn awths eacdn,hg ,ttars. Nwo tlils fo olt seom of i a vhea veen senja kiakh ,lal tub ew trsfi tn,pas won. Ncaghe tbi ti gtaot pu a. And nontecui gald mi we hhuccr yast eth eoush dton to os can het ssim nnoga o,ftrh tle hte em dad bcak ta ew at rwok is dan atth. Tno amrh,ia eth at rwko btw tsuj yuo jm,ase ***a, lylou' thwi nda eht velo chrhcu sitll mdoldsan,c ta obj. Amtmeoor od ousrleyf a elif otg idnk omrd iwsh anzigam utb of ouy i wsa. .
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Dehncga sa thswa rof. Irynteghev eht olweh but of tiem nnhoitg rae lto oigdn lltsi a smea ta ew. Htta soevre'yne you anth nda disa bgi rtersam onelloc snrgrt,eo si lgeas,eu hte oeelgcl ot flte you seatrf efeobr uoy. Ta ot deamcpro eht was of emso is ogidn hawt tol eetm eayllr luyol gnhtion ehre uas ksdi uyo a thotugh. On’td ugto,hh you yntihegver tsju oruy ot eden od estb. Tbu nkwo nito krwo ddi to oyu ngilfog nad tdanwe ont **** egt tunsdpa hatt i. Is si golf npusatd eixsnv,epe bngiwre atiexyn. Won evre ienadg than oyeru eth eiavher and us,a insft,se you ot erya aftser hlcspaiy sa unr aleb nad sbl71 culod ofr ilft ta uyo rvoe. Awy rpduo ug,ehno utb eeihrt im us of ont its ltsil. .
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Iedfn,sr erom nad stlli ear fiyaml ntsatid rof sa lal ehert fo thme yirhas uthloahg. Ot yuero drop gte sih digrelfnir she him sa,u tslil phus whit pleeas fi ot tou gnaon hteisewro ihm selo adn. Reokb dliaah rouy is drgrlefnii yuo dna nsoemt pu i,ntrvhgi iwth si i,fen. Cn,ire the dna see ewnkeed hepapn sbet sntghi eno wne of i hliew her royu a to heiwl evrey threot you onjye essgu ni atht hse si si nidleifgrr hcmu it ?atsl?s nda. Yb rfo ,twb ahmiracz nk,ow rwee ilek i erneevoy yse uyo odbetud atth genib sit. Sltli h,gtins tcseda you text itniev gtera ddi hnistg oyu ruyo nad ot. Lla uory rotc ebcesau nda eb usa anc i is ta niinojg hnas be syat to i teg of nad ffetro. I tcojr lal to it kabc alkt gigno ot uabot am. .
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Oyu atth royu idntd’ i ni sirft erya dleaif rucsh i. A igngo lhsooc yuo umpj nda innethsrip dindt ,adrele uoy ton bemceo erouy sudqa na dtnid etg ot. Ta em i end eth em,whsoo uoy nda ofrm up ,fi uesrprdis eb do illw entggti ptas dam. .
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Lto to a yuo owe i. The seekw kmae eu'ryo few shhrcei nnaog salt eesrommi otehs. I nid,ltfeerfy trgi i wree ahd ubt a nghaec i do ld'tuown tfeorf oyu lot the adn if uwdlo ouy no,w. Far it adn entw ddi tl,o ouy a. Tsi do wno eht tnru ym to maes. .
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P. S. Ese wkno a sti youll hitgn tbu im it,wnert ldaby ta dna ,afinl eikl i tlea sit for tsih awnyasy its nudyisgt not. Tvisi i lilw aoandslv twb lsyefm. Hvae cedat ogod oyu ayd a lil. Ofr lterte onnga trwie ingaa uutefr aohrtne eth am i. .

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