2024 Community Time Capsule: Dear Future Me

[Flower-Loving Punk]

Dear Future Flower-Loving Punk!
I hope the past 5 years have been kind to you, and I hope I was able to put the work in to take you where you needed to go! Did we make it out to LA? Are we still saving up for our own place or did we finally make a down payment? How's your job? Right now our friend's baby is 6 months old. When you read this he'll be almost 5 and half!! Time really does fly. How's the new animal crossing game? I really hope they focus back on small villages and separate cities in the next game. And that the switch 2 isn't too expensive.

Creatively I'm in a rut but I'm hoping that soon my motivation will return and I'll be able to write my specs and work on my own screenplays too soon. I have so many ideas, I hope I'm able to get them all on the page before they get away. Am I better at drawing now, at least???

How was that trip we're taking soon? Hopefully it's not the only one we've taken in 5 years!! the world is crazy and I'm sure it's gotten nothing but crazier, but I hope that it was calm enough to travel everywhere we wanted to!! Right now I'm in a strange transitional period of my life. Nothing is certain except uncertainty. In between youth and adulthood, in between levels of fake and real responsibility. I'm sure I miss it, once I'm out of it. I know I miss the time I worked that summer at my university, even though at the time I was exhausted and hated it.

Do you miss right now? Are these the easy, before times, now that you've gone and become a real adult? What stress and struggles awaited us, I wonder. I hope whatever it was wasn't too hard, and I hope the hard choices you had to make became the right choices eventually. They always have been before. I most of all hope we're happy, whatever it is we end up doing. And if we're NOT happy, I hope we're on our way to getting there. Nothing is easy, but nobody is more capable and committed than us when we put our minds to it.

OH! How was Severance season 2? That comes out Jan 2025 so I hope you're already on like season 6 or something. Very excited for that!

Much Love from 2024!!

Past Flower-Loving Punk

 

[VillageDweller]

Dear Future Harry,

I hope things are well with you right now. By the time you're reading this, you'll be.. 31! Past 30 already.

At the moment, I'm playing Pokemon Scarlet and Monster Hunter World. I wonder what games you'll be playing now!

Hopefully by now you've had more experience, taking care of your mental health, and have put yourself out there more. Maybe you live somewhere else now? Maybe you're with someone now?

That's all I want to put on here. At the moment, I'm coming up for almost 2 years at my job - maybe we're still there, but maybe we're somewhere else too. Whatever it is, I hope I'm taking care of myself, and I'm sure I am doing a great job!

Keep it up!
-Harry November 2024

 

[oak]

Dear future me,

I'm too tired to write anything long from taking care of mom but I hope we're doing good 5 years from now. Dad is also starting to get sick. I'm not sure where we will end up but just know you did your best. I don't even know if I'll have the same job or live in the same city. I feel positive about our future though so hopefully that feeling stays. See you when we're 36.

Love, Yourself

 

[KittenNoir]

Spoiler: For Future Me 🌹

Dear 2029 KittenNoir,

How’s it being in your 30s? Did you get over being sad that we are no longer in our 20s

How many cats do you have now? We currently have one beautiful black Norwegian forest cat and she is 4 years old

Also please tell me we have all the imposter wands by 2029 haha

I wonder how many counties we travelled too

You have also received some fantastic news recently

Life is beautiful and you are enjoying every second of it. I can’t wait to hear back from you in 2029 on what you have gotten up to

Sincerely KittenNoir

 

[Drawdler]

Dear future self,

Life is scary, huh? My expectations as a teen were low and things turned out worse than I ever hoped, but hey… I have this forum and my partner. Remember how we would appreciate the ephemeral? It’s all part of it, ad infinitum, at the end we just have memories. YOU still have that.

Wherever you are, I hope you can appreciate that. I hope the things we love now aren’t painful… that’s been a bad cycle. I hope you can get us the help we need. I hope our partner is down here.

Also, we’re gonna draw again. I’m trying now… I’m trying. A bit. It’s not so bad to learn from my past self, not in the sense of failures but things like all the music we used to listen to…

Some day I’ll see you anyway. I know you’ll remember this place too. It did so much.

Wherever you are, take care.

You know who I am!