To the future and beyond

Dear FutureMe, Heyo, it's me. I'm almost 20. I'll tell you how I am now (in the past) and show you how smart I think I am. This is you, girly. Mkay at this point in our life we're... madly in love. And everything that comes along with the first love. His name is Abbas... and he's getting married. And I'm stupid and happy and he broke everything I thought I knew about myself and I regret nothing. Not even the heartbreak. ... I think. We'll be together a year in six days. WOOHOO! ~Please never stop believing in love. Please never let your heart get calloused over. Please never ever ever let yourself get that far away from God again like now when we hardly ever even talk anymore. Don't let a man do that to you. Don't let a man make you hard or mean. We're also... educated. I take pride in the fact. I graduated high school at one of the finest in America and I've read plenty of classical novels and I'm just finishing my first year at NOVA (TOMORROW!) We're ... hopelessly under-educated as well So much to know! So much to know! I'm just peaking at the tip of the ice berg with Arabic. I don't know if I'll ever get very far with that. I still want to take a comparative religious studies class and finish learning French and learn the guitar and study philosophy and learn to teach and maybe even applied physics? (nah probably not the science) But the list can go on. ~I really hope you still take pride in the fact that you're educated. I hope you continue and NEVER STOP learning. If you ever think you're smart enough, take another look at "The Picture of Dorian Grey" okay? At this point in our lives... we dislike America and it's culture and it's government and the capitalism and the weird customs and the social culture. I don't like that people are so independent and taking care of your family is a choice and the elderly are ignored instead of admired. I don't like that democracy fails because we keep electing the same rotten people. I don't like that the media and the movies are so biased and influential. I don't like that teachers and nurses and people of honorable service professions are paid hardly anything. These are some obstacles I foresee for the future. Technology will get out of control. The electronic stuff, the GMOs, the "organic" food that won't even be organic anymore. I fear people will learn how to live too long and get too unhealthy to enjoy it. If that happens, create for yourself a safe haven in nature you can escape to. Go back to your happy place (any of them or a new one). Read real books that are not on the screen. My happy places: The gazebo in Bonnie's neighborhood where Abbas and I had our first date. The arch in the woods not too far from that by the creek in the same neighborhood. The prairie in Kansas Elizabeth Clark's farm on a windy day The other gazebo in the neighborhood where Madeline Paul and I went that first day of spring and I decided to not live with Chris and April. (best day ever) The point of all this is to show you that things were good. Very good. And they need to stay that way. I don't care if you're poor or use drugs or have no love or you've (god forbid) experienced serious tragedy. It doesn't change who you are. You're strong. You're loved. You're smart. You're a GREAT person. And you can make the world better. Never forget. You're blessed.