Dear Future Me,
I hope by now you’ve realized the true importance in life: happiness. I hope you don’t worry so much. I know that school matters and teachers were always telling you that it determines your future and what not, but it’s not worth the stress. Those nights that you lay awake thinking about all the possible ways you could mess up in a presentation or calculating the lowest possible grade you can get on a test in order to still pass the class. Those were wasted nights that you could have spent having fun with friends or going to the movies. But that stress is nothing new to you, you’ve been this way forever. Don’t you remember the first time you cried over school… you were just nine years old in Mrs. Page’s fourth grade class and you were doing your Rocket Math multiplication tables. Never had you gotten a question wrong until that day, and when the day finally came when you got just one question wrong, you cried asking Mrs. Page if she could change all of your grades to zeros because in your little mind, “nothing really mattered anymore.” Sometimes you would think something is wrong with you. Wishing that you could be someone else other than yourself. Someone who graciously accepted a B with a smile, grateful that they’re still “above average,” rather than getting back a paper with a ninety-nine percent and wishing you hadn’t made that one mistake and could have been perfect. But nobody is perfect and I hope you truly understand that by now and are able to create happiness out of the person you are.
I hope that you have found something that truly allows you to create happiness and you surround yourself with people who make you feel good enough. There are very few of them, but when you find them, don’t ever let them go. I hope that you don’t spend your life chasing after those who you think will make you happy, and instead you create happiness with the life you have. I want you to embrace who you are, and create happiness. I hope that you come to the realization that happiness is the key to life and nothing else matters. Money can’t buy happiness and neither can good grades. But true family and friends will help you create happiness, and help you live the way you should’ve been the whole time. Happy.
I hope that you have found something that truly allows you to create happiness and you surround yourself with people who make you feel good enough. There are very few of them, but when you find them, don’t ever let them go. I hope that you don’t spend your life chasing after those who you think will make you happy, and instead you create happiness with the life you have. I want you to embrace who you are, and create happiness. I hope that you come to the realization that happiness is the key to life and nothing else matters. Money can’t buy happiness and neither can good grades. But true family and friends will help you create happiness, and help you live the way you should’ve been the whole time. Happy.