Public letters from the past

Time Travelled — almost 7 years

A letter from September 22nd, 2013

Dear Future Me, Were the AP classes worth it? Were they worth the stress? The feeling of being overwhelmed? The need to be the best? The struggle to keep the GPA? Does the 4.0 really count? Will I live my life thanking myself for staying up late doing homework? Will I be glad that I had to choose between good grades, enough sleep, or a social life? Or was this all just a waste of time?

Time Travelled — almost 6 years

A letter from September 23rd, 2014

Dear FutureMe, If you're reading these I sure fucking hope you're reading it from your apartment at medical school. You're going to be a great doctor some day. And if not, something big must have happened. Medicine means so much to you and if you have forgotten about that, please turn around because there's nothing you'd rather be doing. Unless you're near death or you won a year round tri...

Time Travelled — almost 5 years

A letter from September 23rd, 2015

dear cassie in five years, i'm nineteen years old. i'm sitting at my (?!) kitchen table in my first apartment (?!) in lakeview. i'm sitting with ally drinking yogi detox tea. speaking of tea, i just got a part time job at david's tea. about three weeks ago i decided to pursue anthropology with a minor in museum studies and french instead of polysci and wgs (but i'm still on the border about th...

Time Travelled — almost 5 years

A letter from September 23rd, 2015

Dear FutureMe, I don't think I have to tell you where I am in my life right now. What I do want to say is that I hope you have found happiness in yourself. If not; I hope you have at least learned how to deal with life's issues better. Have you made it to France yet? If not, start planning your trip. Let me be the one to remind you of where you hoped to be by now. Have you successfully la...

Time Travelled — almost 2 years

A letter from September 23rd, 2018

Dear FutureMe, I guess this is my 35th birthday. Today is my 33rd birthday. It's been a hard year. Like, insanely hard. I hope this year wasn't as rough. There's an Andy Grammar song - I only know this line really - "May the best of your today's be the worst of your tomorrows" and so, I guess I hope that's true. I hope maybe I have some happiness now, some inner peace. I hope I'm still he...

Time Travelled — over 1 year

A letter from January 7th, 2019

Dear FutureMe, Last year was one of the roughest, it was stressful, chaotic, challenging, disappointing and yet one of the greatest! It was a year of clarity, about myself, life, friendships and people in general. It gave chances, many of them, to try and experience things I never knew existed! To break and fix things, it gave me the chance to be right, to be praised for the achievements...

Time Travelled — almost 1 year

A letter from September 23rd, 2019

Dear Future Me, If you are reading this letter.. you made it! I hope that you remembered what you learned. I hope that your struggles were worth the pain. That you graduated and finally realized you dreams. I hope our kids are doing just fine. I hope you finally make time for yourself. I also wanted to remind you of some stuff in case you forgot. It's ok to feel overwhelmed. it's ok to take ...

Time Travelled — almost 1 year

A letter from September 23rd, 2019

Dear FutureMe, I hope you are happy and healthy as your writing this email now. I hope by now you have a beautiful girl or boy or both, living with your husband and doing great in your job. I also hope that you got over your anger and limited patience which you are already working on. I hope you lost weight and following a healthy lifestyle for yourself and beautiful babies and doing workout r...

Time Travelled — almost 10 years

Hows Life?

Dear FutureMe, Hows life? This email was sent through a website called futureme.org that allows you to send an email to the future you if we are still using emails, Anyway, YOUR ANCIENT!!, 24 now, I was 14 when I wrote this email, a whole 10 years ago, hows the dream job going, are you now a famous scientist that invented space travel, if you have please come and say hello, or was it an ama...

Time Travelled — almost 10 years

Happy Birthday Future Self

Dear FutureMe, By the time you read this you will be 28 years old. Remember how you feel this point in your life. Remember the loneliness, sadness, and fear you feel towards the future that got you to now. Remember how your parents got you through home school, and remember Sierra the friend that stuck by you. Remember Nataly, the girl you first started to love, remember Katie your first fri...

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