Public letters from the past

Time Travelled — almost 10 years

Epilogue

Hey, future self

Dear Grace, You married yet girl? Did you ever get over Justin or are you still pining away for him? That's not healthy if you are. Did you ever get the guts together to ask out Conner? You know, that guy from school? Or are you living a lonely life without a husband? Have you even kissed anyone yet? Frond, you're pathetic if you haven't. Get up and do something about that. Go to a club or som...

Time Travelled — about 13 years

Hey Me!

Dear FutureMe, Ten years ago I was confused, lost, frustrated, and worried about my future. I knew what I wanted to be and do with my life, I was just stuck in a rut on getting there. I wanted to be happy and clear on life. Do you remember how absolutely devastated you were when your first love was lost? Now, I am sure you rarely think of the heartache you went through with Chris. ...

Time Travelled — almost 8 years

little tykes

Dear 27-year-old self, Are you a parent by now? Jesus Christ. Maybe you are, maybe you aren't. But maybe you will be soon. Whichever it is, listen up. Your nineteen-year-old self has thought a lot about marriage and parenting -- specifically with Jimmy (what happened to you and him, by the way? :) ) but also in general. And in general, the thing with co-parenting that you've figured out i...

Time Travelled — over 3 years

A letter from January 18th, 2018

Dear Future Me, This has been a wonderful journey. There has been bad times but then there has been a lot of great times. This is your last semester of college. Congratulations on making it this far. You will be fine. You will be teaching your own class here soon. You did it, you got through the hard part. I know you can do it. You will be a great teacher. This is just the beginning of your jo...

Time Travelled — almost 12 years

Hello from the past

Dear FutureMe, I wrote two other letters already, and I don't know how many I will send in the future, but I wanted to send this to you, to remind you to think about your life. I am 18 years old right now, and tomorrow, you are turning 30. I hope you are happy with where you are in life right now. Right now, I want to be a clinical psychologist. I want to get my undergrad degree from Mount H...

Time Travelled — about 10 years

A letter from the past

Dear FutureMe, I am hoping you're alive to read this, I couldn't figure it out because I'm bad at math and I've been grading papers for too long. I would like you to take this opportunity to check on your personal narrative and your level of creativity, because as I write this I realize how intertwined they are. In the 2011 that it is now, you pretty much hate yourself. I mean, there are ...

Time Travelled — about 5 years

A letter from April 10th, 2016, thinking about the meaning of existence

Hey man, This may be a little unprecedented i guess... but it's probably because I've been doing a lot of introspection and have found that nothing can be conclusively taken for a truth, everything can be questioned to the point of no belief. I mean look at Buddha, he probably found out that everything is impermanent and transient and that especially the desirous ways of man, but i feel even ...

Time Travelled — almost 11 years

Hello Sean

Dear FutureMe, Right now it is 5:45pm on Monday, May 17, 2010. And I hope you turned out alright. Are you still with Ashley? Did you ever marry her?! I hope so, because yesterday was the first time I told her "I love you." :] She means so much to me. I wonder what you decided to do for the rest of your life. Right now I think I'm majoring in pre-medicine at MSU.. but I feel like I co...

Time Travelled — almost 10 years

A letter from April 28, 2011

Hello me, My life has gone to hell. I hope you moved on and forgot all about it. Like a bad dream. If that's the case, let me give you a recap. I went to Europe three days before my grandfather died. I loved Europe. I saw many beautiful things, met many wonderful people from all over the world, and learned so many new things. However, I fucked up way more than I anticipated (mostly due to un...

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