Public letters from the past

Time Travelled — 7 months

A letter from Apr 27th, 2022

Dear FutureMe, As I am writing this I'm sitting at my desk at work and wonder where life will take me. And there is a reason we I chose this date for the delivery of this letter. This weekend we will spend almost all hours of the day with our extended family. It's always a bit complicated with these people. They expect so many things from us, which sometimes puts a lot of pressure on us. Thi...

Time Travelled — 12 months

A letter from the past

Dear Future Me...... Hey there ! So glad you took some time to smell the roses and reflect on how well you have gone! I know that at times you are marred with self doubt and thinking traps that you forget how far you have come. You wrote this 17th of November 2021 . Aged 48 years old living in Bayside area Frankston and working as a Recovery Coach. 2021 has been a difficult year for all of u...

Time Travelled — 12 months

A letter from Nov 17th, 2021

Dear FutureMe, Remember that time moves quickly. The longer you put off getting started on your goals, the less you’ll be able to achieve them and meet your future objectives. Act now; things don’t need to be perfect. You can work on perfecting them as time goes. But you can’t even start perfecting something that hasn’t been started. Everything doesn’t have to be the worst version of itse...

Time Travelled — 12 months

Epilogue

A letter from Nov 17th, 2021

Dear FutureMe, Hey! I wonder, which university did you end up getting into? To set the vibe, currently, you're in 12th grade, 2 months into the academic year. You're about to start preparing for your capstone project/immersion, you're applying to your dream universities, and you're currently writing this letter on your desk to avoid your physics and calculus homework. You want to apply t...

Time Travelled — 12 months

A letter from Nov 17th, 2021

Dear FutureMe, I'm sorry I'm not so carried along in this life. This life doesn't favour me because I do think it ain't suppose to be as hard. I currently cannot tell you what you can do to make it. I can't even predict what you could be in the next 1yr, in service perhaps or still in final year, and in the next 5yrs. Struggling to know where i belong i guess🙂. Appreciate those who push you har...

Time Travelled — over 6 years

A letter from March 27th, 2016

Dear FutureMe, Happy 22 Birthday! How's life? You're finishing up your pre-med bachelors degree at Baylor. You finished in the top 20 of your class and all your hard work paid off. You had a great time at prom even though you didn't have a date, you rocked it out with your friends. You finally found a best friend. You not so lonely anymore. You're not married or engaged yet but you've fou...

Time Travelled — 12 months

A letter from Nov 15th, 2021

Dear FutureMe, Hello. We are surprised when we read this email. We have completely forgotten about it, and this is such a random date to receive this. We know. This is also such a strange tense to write in. We are now a college student. We've been accepted somewhere that we like and are working towards becoming a wildlife biologist (or did we change our minds and choose something else? Do tel...

Time Travelled — about 8 years

Epilogue

A letter from October 15th, 2014

October 14th/15th, 2014 Dear, dear, darling 97-months-from-now me: This morning in English class (in my defense, we had a work period in the library and I was really bored), I started thinking about how moms always give the age of their children in months, even after the child passes the one-year mark. I imagined this taken to the extreme: “Oh, my son Greg just turned 97 months old”. Now, t...

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