Featured Letters from the past

Time Travelled — 12 months

Today

Dear FutureMe, You just remembered the sky is blue and world is round and you are young and very human. You are done, finished, eternally through with this research project and have time for small luxuries like sending an email to the person you will be in a month and ten days. This individual will hopefully be living in a quiant little apartment with green walls and not spending her spare ...

Time Travelled — 2 months

Subject Are they still trying to poison us?

Dear FutureMe, Well, you turn 40 today. As I write this to you your workplace is a quagmire of environmental pollution that is making you & your workmates ill. You are the only one really standing up to the powers-that-be about this & are the only one with the guts to try & get it fixed. So, has it been fixed yet? Are you still there or have they gotten rid of you? Have you or ...

Time Travelled — 12 months

Hope you've sorted it out

Dear FutureJules, it's 4:30AM. in case you've forgotten, you're a major insommniac in the sad summer of '04. matt hays helped you find this site, through his remarkable IM profile that always seems to have something funny or interesting to make you smile. when you get this, thank him for it. it's supposed to be the time of your life when everything makes sense. but it doesn't. here i...

Time Travelled — about 1 year

Goodbye Cruel World

Dear Mom, I am so sorry to have done this to you, and put you through so much pain and grief, but really, you can never understand how much you and dad hurt me with your unkind words and uncaring hearts. In some ways I am glad that finally you will hurt the way I have for all these years. When you find me, I will be gone and you will never get the chance to apologise. I hope the agony ...

Time Travelled — 12 months

From Past You

Dear FutureMe, I'm not going to ask you any questions. Because you'll never be able to answer me. That is the cruel joke here. Sure, you can write a letter to your future self, but what good will it do?! He can never get back to you. So I'm just going to tell you something. You'd better be in a different job. I'm serious. And you'd better be seeing a therapist and not sitting around depresse...

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