Open this before Graduation

Dear FutureMe, Hey there, new avenue? I know. It's odd thinking about opening a letter from me in the past on my email, especially since I've written and filed so many away in print. Although, if you think about it, this is like every other email you open, written in the past, and something that none the less probably sat in your inbox for at least a few days. I know some people reading this think i'm either a blithering idiot or fluent at talking to myself and therefore very smart. If you fall in the second category, i think you are someone i would enjoy spending an afternoon with, at least. I know if there are any psychologists out there, reading this, you definitely have an opinion about this, about how i'm writing this letter, and i'm okay with that. I'm actually only writing this letter so that i can go back on Wednesday and say, "yes, as a matter a fact i did write one of those letters." I know if you've read many of these letters that that is a horrible reason for writing a letter but you want to know what I think? That is a perfert reason for writing a letter, you're capturing a moment! (And you are writing to yourself so you don't even have to worry about burdening anyone with your psycho-babble. ;) ) Writing a letter to yourself is rather like signing a yearbook because it's an opinion, stored away that you will look back upon, like my four grade yearbook (which is a perfect example of terrible yearbook signings) has about twenty people who told me to "Have A Great Summer" and signed their name, which pretty much sucks if you think about it. I always tell people to capture the moment when they sign my yearbook. You know why? Because i'm most likely going to remember the important ins and outs of the year and if not, at least some of them SHOULD be in the yearbook, at which point i can just go look it up. :) Right? I'm probably not going to remember something like "Hey, will you look at that there are buzzards circling the parking lot!" or the fact that they Sharpied a couple of people out of the senior panoramic. Which would definitely inspire more interest in a yearbook than twenty people telling me that they think I'm a great person and they hope i have fun at college. No one ever writes anything mean or manical in yearbooks, either. Did you ever notice that? Hmm, that is curious...Not the mean or manical thing but all this talk about yearbooks, has me thinking about school (not a big leap), which actually starts again tomorrow. I wonder if at the end of the year any of the kids in the classes I'm student aiding will ask me to sign their yearbooks. Wouldn't that be interesting? Looking back twenty years later to discover that the student aide liked the way you made capital Ws or something? Definitely a conversation starter. Anyway, speaking of looking back, I have a mission for you (god, i can hardly believe graduation is five short months away!) when you open this print out some copies and add them to the 2012 and 2017 envelopes and bring your 2010 envelope to school and open it at lunch and i don't know maybe share it, and bring this letter too, because it's interesting. And now for something for all those goal setters, teachers, and people who generally just like a good laugh, i have some hopes, dreams, and goals for myself! All you teachers who make your kids write crap about wanting to do better in math or english should be taking some notes :) (why, yes, i am a smart ass!) 1. I hope you still get a thrill out of being able to buy your own R rated movie tickets 2. I hope you still like to dance in the rain 3. I hope you either took a date or proudly bought yourself a corsage for prom 4. I hope someone takes you up on the fact your backseat is always empty with the seatbelts pushed in, before you move into college 5. I hope the people reading/hearing this are laughing 6. I hope I get the chance to sneak out and climb down from a balcony in my lifetime 7. I hope I never give up writing 8. I hope I still find comfort in the smell of the sea 9. I hope I still enjoy candle light when the power isn't out and no one is trying to romance me 10. I hope I have found a worthy competitor for V for Vendetta as my favorite movie 11. I hope that I still prefer to flip switches up to turn the lights off and down to switch them on 12. I hope I still have a survival kit in the back of Pigwidgen 13. I hope sometime during college I camp out in my car for no apparent reason 14. I hope I still give scarves at Christmas 15. I hope I still don't like pink roses 16. I hope my clock is still seventeen minutes fast 17. I hope that if I am reading this aloud several people have questions about that last one 18. I hope someone asks me how many more 'hopes' they have to listen to 19. I hope they had a more inventive reason I should stop here than because they were tired of listening 20. I hope I still dig myself into holes 21. I hope my brain still short circuits occasionally 22. I hope I still blush when it does 23. I hope I have remedied the tongue-tied effect that also comes with this, especially if it requires some assistance 24. I hope at least half of you reading/hearing this got that 25. I hope some of you are still around when I open the next envelope and read all this crap again I wish I had a better way to tie up this letter, there is no natural break this time, I can't say, "that's all, I just wanted to share that." Because this letter wasn't about something I've learned, it was about just doing it and capturing the moment, but I hope when I share this (oh, yes, just when you thought you were safe) some of you learned something about me. Love From, Rose PS: Somewhere along the line of writing this I decided that I wouldn't actually sign my real name, and when it came time "Love From" seemed appropriate for a closing. (For you Harry Potter fans, yes, I was very tempted to sign it "Hermione".)