2006 note from your past

Dear FutureMe, Happy New Year - 2016! This is your past me - you know - from 2006. You were already old when you wrote this note; you must be really old now - if you are still alive at all. Your health began to deteriorate in 2005, so you couldn't have done much travelling since you wrote this note, but that's okay. You had a really good life and did so many things. You were a pilot and a Registered Nurse. You saved lives! You survived the sixties! You travelled a lot and had a wonderful family. You even time-travelled. You travelled from the sixties to the seventies and then the eighties, nineties and now the new millenium. People don't understand that we are all time travellers. We are constantly travelling into the future, and we can always travel into the past - sometimes in our memories, and sometimes by reading books that other time-travellers have written for us in the distant past. If we want to travel into the distant future, we can write a book that will be read by people way in the future, thus we are sort of carrying on a conversation with future generations. I can't believe all the time-travelling you have done since you/I wrote this note. How was it? Don't you miss the fifties? Remember when men were manly and they stood up to let a lady sit down on the bus? Now I stand in the lobby of a restaurant and see these whimpy men just sit their while old women stand. Men are just not masculine anymore. Governor Arnold would call them girlie-men, and he would be right. In the fifties televison was polite, and radio was polite. We didn't use foul language and we didn't talk about unpleasant things and it was - pleasant. Now... well, I guess it's natures way of making us not want to live forever. I don't like the world I see now. Hope it hasn't gotten any worse for you. (Oh, but I do love the gadgets! I love cell phones and my Palm Pilot and computers and the Internet! I feel like George - okay Jane - Jetson.) Hope you have done lots of charitable work. You can still do that and there is no excuse not to. See you on the other side, Your Past You