Public letters from the past

Time Travelled — 12 months

Thursday, September 15th, 2016

Dear Me, Today is a significant day, not in greatness. Today marks the second anniversary of the Boles Fire. A day trauma struck. When I look back I see images of smoke. Or us fleeing the play ground, air so thick it was hard to breathe. The world tinted red, the heat on our faces, the terror and worry we felt. I think of the moments where I wanted to help but didn't know how. Lending out my ...

Time Travelled — about 1 month

He left yesterday,

Jenna, Right now I can only think about how cold his hands were. My mind is a clusterfuck of all the worst things that could be happening, I cant imagine him as anything other than scared. Im so worried. I cant stop crying. I am terrified of doing anything that might prolong my life. Please tell me there's been some news and I'm still here to hear it. I've never been less afraid of my us...

Time Travelled — almost 4 years

A letter from September 13th, 2013

Dear FutureMe, My first letter YEARS into the future instead of months (I'm usually too impatient). I'm a 27 year old, feeling like a bum and lost in everything - lost in love, lost in career. I don't feel like I'm in the field I should, and I'm alone. I don't know where I am, but I hope that it's something better now. Four years ago I was a very different person, younger, more selfish, k...

Time Travelled — almost 3 years

Remember.

Understand that life is not a straight line. Life is not a set timeline of milestones. It is okay if you don’t finish school, get married, find a job that supports you, have a family, make money, and live comfortably all by this age, or that age. It’s okay if you do, as long as you understand that if you’re not married by 25, or a Vice President by 30 — or even happy, for that matter — the worl...

Time Travelled — 12 months

Epilogue

A letter from September 8th, 2016

Dear FutureMe, I'm so sad right now I really need help, so much help. I think I'm depressed and I don't know what to do with myself anymore. I don't want to be alone all my life I cannot do it NONONONO NOT ANYMORE. PLEASE HELP ME, HELP YOURSELF. I AM SO SAD AND I FEEL SO LONELY IT'S TERRIBLE. No love and affection for me, then...nothing. I am going to die of loneliness. I just can't make p...

Time Travelled — about 2 months

A letter from July 24th, 2017

Dear FutureMe, Como estás? Deves ter aberto este email sem fazer a mínima ideia do que se tratava. Talvez até o apagaste sem o ler e não te apercebeste do quão importante é. Sim, é verdade, sou eu, és tu (mas no passado). Hoje foi o dia em que estive pela última vez sentada numa sala na tua escola secundária, ainda por cima a fazer o meu último exame de Biologia e Geologia (felizmente!...

Time Travelled — about 4 years

A letter from August 13th, 2013

Dear FutureMe, Wow, you're turning 18 today, now as i write this I am 13 turning 14 soon I just wanted to send you some memories from our past. Remember Dan and Phil? How much you loved those two British boys! Where are they now do you think? Are they still making videos?! I honestly hope so! How about One Direction? The band that saved your life at merely 12 years old? Who continued to hel...

Time Travelled — 12 months

A letter from yourself from September 6th, 2016

Dear FutureMe, So, a whole year has gone by. What are you up to? Something productive I hope. Are you still dating Adriana? Are you still working at Arby's? Tell me something has changed. Have you completed something important to you? Do you know where your life is headed? At the time of writing this, I'm scared shitless that I'm going nowhere. I don't like it. I haven't moved forward i...

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