A letter from Jul 05, 2025

Dear FutureMe, or just me, i guess, how are things going? how is the now treating us? i would like to hope that everything is going by smoothly, that we're getting that yonsei korean certification, that we had that beautiful graduation ceremony and that you wore a hanbok, that you felt like a princess while in it, and so, so proud of how far you've gone and how much you've achieved. we have achieved. what we have become. the reason why i am once again writing to you is that i recently received a letter from 2022 us. so young, so lost in life. so scared of everything and all. of our future. only 18, recently became an adult, and so many burdens already make her shoulders heavy. his shoulders, theirs. all of it so new and confusing and it would seem like a million possibilities were drowning us and yet we couldn’t grab unto any of them. mom suggested for me to write again to that 2022 me, and to 2026 me as well. time might as well not be linear, and what i am expressing today might be able to reach you both in some way or another. to make long things short, i am okay. great even. at peace, happy, fulfilled, and i think the most important of all, i am finding a purpouse in the small things in life. i do not longer feel like i am drifting in the world with a single thing to tie me down to earth. i have things i look foward to, in my daily life and in the far future as well. what comes next is not so scary anymore. as for what has changed since 2022, a lot, and also not as much as you once feared. our boys are back. happy, healthy, stronger than ever and ready to take on the future. you went to hobi's concert on festa, on their anniversary, and all of them were there to support him. they were right there, at your right, and you could see them dancing and laughing and cheering and just enjoying themselves during the show. they're happy, and so are you. you also went to jin's concert, and the boys were there too. there's nothing pulling them apart from each other anymore. also, you know korean! once you receive this letter you're probably going to be so much better at it, but right now you're doing amazing. you understand them (mostly) during their lives, the ments at the concert, every time they post on weverse or write a silly caption to their posts. (you can also know eavesdrop conversations, and it is so fun when they think they can just speak whatever all the time just because you're a foreigner). you've come so, so far with it, so congratulations, and i'm proud of your hard work. give yourself more credit for it every once in a while. in your past letter you also said that, while watching namjoon's live, you felt so much grief and desperation because you felt like he couldn’t be proud of us and what you left ourselves become. i want to say to you that you were worrying over nothing, and i'm happy to let you know that we are okay, that things get better, that we grow, and that it stops hurting so much. he would be proud us, so, so proud. of me now as i write, of me when i receive this letter, and of the me that was writing full of grief for the future in 2022. because we're still here, because we didn't give up, because we chose to keep on living every single day. he wouldn't be proud of us just because i managed to come all the way here to seoul, because of the scholarship, because of learning korean. he would be proud of us just because, because we didn't drown in the rain, because we remained kind. i hope, if there's anything 2022 me can receive from this letter, is that you shouldn't worry, that everything turns out okay, that he would be proud of us regardless of achievments and success. now for me in 2026. for the me soon to start university, for the me that's about to see bangtan all together and having a comeback, the me that's about to start a new chapter in her life. i hope you're still happy. i hope you haven't lost that spark. i hope you're loved. i hope you're still as kind as ever. i hope you a safe landing, a soft rest, a calm dreaming where nothing haunts us, burden us. i hope we are as excited of starting this new chapter as i am for you right now. i hope we retain this newly aquired peace, this calmness in our live and our decisions that as of now embraces me. as for what i have came to say in this letter, i think that's all. as yoongi always says, and what has carried us through these years, future's gonna be okay, 다 괜찮아질 거야. i am wishing you the best, and i am cheering for you, always. present past and future. the me that i was, that i am, and that i'll become. with much love, and lots of hope in the future and what awaits us, 2025 me