Here it is:
Here’s the letter I wrote myself on May 7, 2007. I received it a year later:
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Hey you!
Dear FutureMe,
I hope you’re having a fun time where you are right now. At this moment, May 6th 2007, all you have in front of you is a list of goals. Currently, you’re working diligently to make those goals reality, and I commend you for that.
I want you to know that if you’re still working that go-no-where job, thats sucks, but thats okay. You should be in school, and you should be writing so much more than you do right now. I believe I have a knack for it, and I really wish you are out there developing it in to something worthwhile.
At the moment, you are working so hard to go back to school, are you there yet? If you aren’t let me just remind you of your dreams of being a film maker. Don’t let them slip away. You should be out there expressing what you want to become, and school is the only way to go.
If everything is going as planned, you should be in University right now. I know it must be hard to be 22 and a freshmen, but there are worse things in life than that. People usually find themselves their life’s ambition when they’re old and gray, you on the other hand are just a mere 22. I hope you did well in you comminity college classes before entering University, because film school will be tough.
I know you sometimes feel lonely and wish to have someone there for you. You honestly don’t need that. I’m here writing this to you from a year ago, and I’m just fine in my loneliness, if you want to even call it loneliness. Its these feelings that you have sometimes that makes me wonder about you. I know there were some really tough patches along the way to where you are now, I hope you can make it through. All of thses obstacles are just there to make you a better person. You just have to remember that. :)
I don’t know what else to say to you besides, work hard and make your dreams come true. It’ll all pay off in the end!
Oh, heres a list of things about yourself a year ago, to make you laugh:
- You want to quit your job to work at Blockbuster. When you told your boss the other day he said, “Why are you breaking up with me?” and started to get very emotional.
- You’re writing a screenplay about a zombie attack. You think it has potential, please don’t quit working on it. Just remember how Jack Black or Judd Apatow would totally love it if they read it.
- You are currently waiting impatiently for your ‘Freaks & Geeks’ boxset to arrive in the mail. You’re tired of watching little clips of it on youTube, and after watching ‘Undeclared’ (and getting a crush on Jay Baruchel), you thought it was well worth paying that much money for.
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I just turned 26. I moved 500 miles away and now live on my own in Honolulu. I’m graduating this December after 4 years of university work: a pseudo-double major in Film and English. I’ve been working at Blockbuster for 7 months. Still single.
