Time Travelled — 12 months

A quarantined letter from March 18th, 2020

Mar 18, 2020 Mar 18, 2021

Peaceful right?

Hi, hello, hi, I always end up cursing you with multiple cryptic letters that arrive, and are irrelevant to your life at that point. The meaningful ones all seem sent away towards the distant future despite you being on this website for two years and having received only around three letters, which essentially say "hey go apologise to this person if you haven't already" (sent 2 months into the future) "life for me is hard but here's an unachievable goal I for some reason believe you will achieve" (sent a year into the future) and finally, the worst one "are you having a hard time? here's a list of 3 people you can count on, because you guys will totally be friends forever!"(sent a year into the future) Nonetheless, I do believe your one-year future self deserves a worthy update, not some cryptic bullshit being thrown around that really won't help anybody. So here's what's up, future me. I'm currently back in Mexico City due to the coronavirus (is that still a thing?). I was supposed to be going home for spring break next week, but we were evacuated early and I had to pack up all of my dorm room into four boxes and two suitcases, sent for the summer storage. Life back home is weird, and I haven't had time to process everything, but I'm really hoping the virus fades away and no borders close, so I can still go to school with my friends after break and the two weeks of online school we have end. I'm surprised I'm not as sad as I was when we first got the news, although I guess that's just because sadly, I'm getting used to it. Being in the middle of a pandemic is weird, and it sort of makes me wonder what type of person this letter will reach, but that's alright. I met Andy less than a month ago, which so far has been the most eventful day of 2020. I was looking back on old texts today and I saw us fantasising about meeting someday, so I'm really really surprised that happened. I really hope you were able to see him again this year, and you wore another lolita coordinate to meet him. And I really hope Lilikoi and the others were able to come with you this time as well. There's a lot of things that I leave up to you to solve, and I'm aware of that. There are many things in my life right now that are "future me's problems", and I just avoid them. I don't know why, probably out of fear of them turning up badly. Anyway, here's a wild round of all those things, so you can tick off the boxes of the ones you fixed/worked on/untangled. Emailed the Linda woman to change my major to Visual Arts, finished that one commission that's taking me ages to make, brought up Andy's maladaptive daydreaming to him again, cut my hair, fixed my absolutely dreadful nails, unpacked, worked on my novel, finished working out what I want to do with my other novel, etcetera. That's one hefty list. Most of those are trivial, though, just things that I need to do soon. Still, I hope you can at least get the satisfaction of ticking some of those boxes off. It's 4 am, and I'm really tired, so I'm going to bed now. I don't know what it's like to live in a post-pandemic world, and I still don't know how bad the thing's gonna get, so here's to you, future me. I wish you all the luck in the year to come.

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