Dear future Me: a letter for my self in 50 years
Dear future Me
I'm currently 15 years old, turning 16 in a few weeks. I have such a beautiful family, a home and the chance to do whatever I want. I'm very grateful for anything that has already happened to me and I can't complain about anything. Can you remember the great time you had as a young woman? You were crazy, laughing all the time with your friends and just enjoying life, even if there were bad moments.
Well, life is hard sometimes and you have the right to be sad sometimes.
Right now I'm working on my insecurities and I really hope that you've finally learnt to love yourself the way you are.
I hope that you've stopped caring about what other people think of you. I know that you don't really care about the opinions of other people, but deep down it hurts you sometimes.
I hope that you've achieved to deal with bad things, bad people and bad choices you've made when you were young and that might have any consequences.
I hope that you are still living a happy life; do you remember all the dreams that you had when you were young?
You had big goals when you were young and I hope that you are successful.
You wanted to travel the world, meet new people and discover the unknown. Have you already been to another continent than Europe? Have you already discovered new continents with your family?
You wanted to possess a nice house with a big garden and much space for your little children to play outside. Your dream house was next to a lake or a sea with nice neighbours, their children playing with your children. Have you even got children? How many of them?
You always wanted to live a happy life with your husband and manage all the things around you: kids, job, cleaning the house, being sociable, visiting your parents..
Your parents, are they still alive? What about all your sisters and brothers; what have they achieved in life? Are they successful?
I'm not interested in asking you so many questions because I know that I actually would have to wait 35 years until I could answer them.
I'm wondering what your hair looks like. Is it short, long, brown or blonde? Am I rather wearing dresses or jeans? What music do you like? What movies do you like? What's your favorite colour?
I've got so many questions, but I just have to accept the disappointment of not having answered my questions now.
I hope that you've proven to yourself that your dreams haven't been unrealistic and that you've achieved them or still are struggling with them.
I hope that you've been ambitious and hard-working to make your goals come true.
I wish that you could tell me that everything will be okay..
But that's it for now.
Spread love and happiness,
All the best
kulka
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Very good questions all of us should ask ourselves when we're younger. They say the only thing constant in this life is change. We can consider ourselves fortunate if the good relationships we have now with friends and family are still there in the future.
Who knows what the future will bring, but you're ahead of many of your peers by thinking about how you might be in 30-50 years. Having long term perspective is the best one to have.
Good luck!
thank you for reading the whole text :) i appreciate it.. yes, there are thousands of questions i ask myself.. maybe changes aren't always a bad thing, right ;)
Change tends to be neutral I think. It is what it is. How we react to it, I would say, is where the good or bad comes in.
Something devastating (you can fill in the blank) is hard and maybe even seems insurmountable, but even out of great tragedy good can come. I'm not perfect at reacting positively to tough change, but I'm trying, and I think it's the best way to look at things.
Thinking about change and what we can do to make the best of it is something that can and should happen before it comes. As long as we're aware that thinking about It might not fully prepare us for experiencing all of it—some change just needs to be experienced—but it will help us in the greater part.
Now, I don't think we should spend so much time thinking about what could be that we fail to live what is. There needs to be a healthy combination of using the past as a navigational reference, living and experiencing the present, and finding ways to optimize and/or mitigate the future.
No pressure, right?
Things have a tendency to work out if we don't overthink them and act as best we know how. No one needs the stress of trying to overcome things that are not within their control.
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