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How to write a letter to my future self
It made me
surprised
 "I was surprised to discover that writing to the future actually is a kind of thought provoking thing to do."
How I did it: Went to futureme.org to write a letter to myself in 10 years. Most of everything I think about or would want to relate she can just look up in diaries if she's interested, but it was interesting to think about what I would want not to forget or what I would actively want to remind her about. I figure the hardest thing to access, once you've had children, is the level-headed view of what children are like and how they feel. Parenting and the love you feel for your child distorts that perspective. I know my mother has no idea how to be remotely rational or reasonable about who I am as a person, so that might be a useful thing of which to remind myself to try to stay aware. However, once I got writing, I found the experience of talking to myself in 10 years to be a little strange and haunting. I wouldn't have imagined that. So, I say try it! Lessons & tips: Somehow typing in the date September 2018 has a different effect on your mind than just imagining writing a note for the future. So, going to the futureme.org website was particularly effective for me.
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Satisfied 
How I did it: I went to futureme.org and it was really easy following the instructions. I wrote about my life, pets, study, everything i could think of about my life now. I wonder how it will make me feel in 2019 to get it and see how i have changed Read how I did it…
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It made me
calm
How I did it: I wrote 3 letters altogether. one for a years time, one in 5 years and another in 10 years time. They all pretty much long the same lines of me describing friends and relationships mainly as thats the most important thing and the most i worry about now. But i tried to descible what my expectations are for each too, trying to keep in realistic and acheivable. But i think its safe to to say that most if not everyone just want to be happy an… Read how I did it…
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It made me
How I did it: I wrote a letter to myself to open in five years time. I just wrote about my life and what I hope to get out of life over the next five years. By the time I'm "allowed" to open the letter I'll have finished university whereas now I've not even started so I'm guessing my life will be different then-It'll be cool to see how I've changed! Read how I did it…
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It made me
Estatic!
How I did it: I wrote it on binder paper in a notebook that was super special to me. I rolled it up in an empty bottle and left a bracelet for myself. Then I dug it up (using my hands and a sand castle shovel) in my backyard and just left it there. I shall open it in the year 2012. Read how I did it…
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It made me
relaxed
How I did it: I was really miserable and about to have my bi-weekly mental breakdown.I was in a train sobbing and decided to do it to remind myself of what I stand for,clearly state what my goals are and hope to death I don't veer or get influenced to live the way I don't want to live . I have the hard copy with me and plan to type it and have it posted to me from www.futureme.org. Read how I did it…
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Purple Fairy is reborn!!
well...I tried
2 months ago
but now I realize I am really not sure what I want my future self to tell me…thats odd
Maybe some other day when I am more excited about life.
Isabellaaa plans on putting more effort into this list.
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7 months ago
I felt kind of stupid at first.
But then I starter to really get into it, after about 10 minutes.
I just wrote all about my thoughts and feelings at the time, the careers and paths I had in mind, and some things I want myself to remember when I open it.
I only wrote it a few weeks ago, and I was cleaning out my room last night and I found it in a sealed envolope in the back of my diary. I didn’t open it, but I wrote another one to go with it because it reminded me of all these things I need to remember. About what’s really important, and no matter what- I should be proud of the things I’ve achieved :]
XxRicaxX has her licence!
Wow... I am speechless.
11 months ago
I just spent the last 2.5 hours writing a letter to my future self on futureme.org, and all I did was babble on about my life right now. I’m not even going to try to summarize everything I wrote about, it was simply too much. My hobbies, my friends, my family, my pets, my boyfriend, school, my expectations in life, my career wishes… it’s all included in there. Most people on that site write a short little paragraph on their expectations they have in themselves. I flipping wrote a 5-page essay! xD
I have sent the letter to both my e-mail accounts, just to make sure I get it. It should be arriving in about ten years, when I have my own life set up, and when I can compare and contrast who I am now and who I will be then.
Just in case, I made sure to include an encouraging paragraph that’ll be nice to read if I screw up majorly. But since I’m not expecting that to happen, I will now go to bed and smile about everything I have accomplished today. Writing this letter was one of the best things I have done in a long time… and I hope that I will think the same in a decade.
JustJürgen has had a weekend of massive feasting
In 20 years
11 months ago
I will congratulate myself for having become a teacher – no job fears in times of economic crisis.
JustJürgen has had a weekend of massive feasting
Some day in December 2008
11 months ago
I discovered that I might be better off if I spoke out my wishes clearly.
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11 months ago
I want to write a letter to my future self to remember these days. Now that I’m at a point in my life where I have to decide what I want to do with my life I want to write down my thoughts and feelings and see how I will change.
I might write a letter every week or every month but I definitely want to do it on a regular basis.
jane i need help
Receive a letter from my future self.
14 months ago
I have this goal on here because I find it interesting for some reason, but am not sure why. I was rearranging and contemplating goals today and felt on the fence about this one. I don’t know what I would need or want to say to a future self. I mean, would I just want to remind her of what life was like for me? My outlook? What my mother is like, what being single and childless is like, what I panic about? I have no idea. What would she want to know that she couldn’t find out by reading an old journal? What I really want is to receive a letter from my future self. I want her to write to me and tell me what to do, reassure me somehow that I can do the right things and make life turn out alright.
So, today I wrote a letter to my past self. I’m going to pop it in the mail and mark it 1990, and then maybe in a few days I’ll get something from my future self. I don’t care if it’s my 40 year old or 80 year old selves that write. I’m sure any of my future selves will have something wonderfully helpful to say. I can’t wait.
neb503 is not thinking about what he is doing.
Dear ben...
15 months ago
going to e-mail this to my future self. http://www.futureme.org/ is a good idea. :)
rovingjack is putting too much on his plate.
I think I'm done with this one.
16 months ago
A quick glance at the one I thought needed to be finished seemed to say it was good enough. I’m going to fold an origami envelope for it and tuck it into a photo album for now. In a year (actually less now) on my birthday when I read it I will pull it out and paste it into a journal. I’m calling it good and done, I do plane to make a few more soon. But for now I’m just going to take it off the list.
