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...

It rleslat say cruhs qeuti otrc udwol uhhttog znigm,aa ouy oyu liek ron it did or si. ************ ynknsi oyu spspuhu uoy remo voh’ulsed endo. Eahv thi,ab fo you osrmpei htsi dba adn ot a plleacyies itnghs revdreiedlun luoryfes ot r,aye eitm. Aoebv a btu edarsg my sbrupa ear era 3 ew. Apg 0. .
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S,netsnocti atsdey tt,asr ill twsah hgcen,da to htaw to and ays tawh giogn hgnaec. Onw ,all omes olt of i onw ew of sritf evne a lltsi vaeh khkia s,atnp ubt senja. Gttao up chnega tbi ti a. Dna nango the atth ot ew otf,rh is ioecnutn gdla me smis at abkc otnd asyt teh hcucrh at we adn kwor dad the im etl cna os eoshu. At oyu chchur a,*** nda tihw hma,ira eth tbw at tsill tjus loev ol'uyl work teh ,esajm ton o,samclddn jbo. Metoroma do nikd tog aws fo uoy dmor lief a luyrsfoe i utb mgaizan wihs. .
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Ecndagh as rfo awsth. Ta het ew rntegiyvhe nongtih ohlew msae of olt btu etim aer lltsi idong a. Eye'rsovne oconlle is gus,elae fetasr loeclge het frebeo dan ot asdi anth tfle igb yuo ttah ouy eorrtgsn, ouy traserm. Aus ouy nhtnogi luyol tohtuhg si dksi awht the fo at rehe osme a to oadepcmr goidn lto wsa elrlay meet. Otnd’ thuhgo, dene uyo to ebts rnyiveeght do sujt uroy. Thta adn nto antspud ot **** i tbu gfnglio onwk tnio dnawte yuo egt rwko ddi. Satunpd si yteanxi logf einrwbg si ep,evsnxie. As yuo reev s1b7l rnu ofr ta eoyur eht fns,esti you aelb dan onw piacshyl areveih and ingade aetrfs rveo tfil than oculd us,a eyar to. Utb ayw its fo tno odurp su ihrete ugno,eh stlil im. .
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Yliamf reom ehter atisdnt lla of nirds,fe as ahsyir fro meht nad are tlsli uhoalthg. Elos seh uphs asu, esthrwioe nda hsi mih gte ot drop ihm out to naong if dginrlrfie hiwt esplea uyore lslti. Si dhaial pu yoru and fnie, si oyu rvihitng, tsomen whti kbore ngdefilrri. Fo ni nda noe adn is esh iriflgerdn ugses tihnsg it enahpp i iwhle chum yoru ervey a rtothe ekewned nci,re ot yonje s??atsl reh etbs ees the htta si liweh wen uyo. Yuo like t,bw i were nkw,o sey enyereov by rof utdodbe ebgin hcazarim ist tath. Hgi,nts nad did txet rgtea oyu llsti igntsh sedcta inveit royu to oyu. Dna gniionj yuro and otrc si hsan at lal fo syat ot cseaeub i anc egt i usa eb be ftrfoe. I all aklt ot tbuao kabc ti niggo rojtc ma to. .
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Ouy ftirs ouyr htta ni rcsuh i ialedf i eyar tdnd’i. Jpmu egt uoy qdsua nad na ebmceo ueyro ndidt tindd uyo a onggi oohlsc nieihrntsp ot nto rdel,ae. Aspt den frmo engtgit ouy do i me dan omswhe,o llwi esrdsiupr the mad at ,if be up. .
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A to ouy woe i tlo. Akme ye'uro teh cerhihs gnnoa atls smoemeri ewf oehts eeskw. Ouy hda tldn,eerffyi irgt uodwl adn i tbu a terfof uoy onw, hte ewre fi od otl i i uowtnd'l cgaehn. Ti nda lot, a idd uyo arf tewn. Eht to wno od my tnru eams its. .
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P. S. Ees thsi tael a dan ownk tub w,ttrine oyull sit its ton ignth sinytdug yaynwas tis ta im flna,i yabld like i rfo. I wbt ilwl mefysl viist dovaslna. A ill hvea ouy ady godo ecadt. Irtwe ainga rtleet ntaroeh for fruuet am het nonag i. .

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