Dear Future Me:
I wish I could say that I’m writing this letter from a place of confidence and security. I wish I had wise and pithy words to wow you with. I wish this letter could be an inside joke between you and me – you know, kidding around about choices I made today and how they could have rippled through time to affect you. How’s that “no caffeine” thing treating you, ha ha ha?
I wish I could fool you, but I know I can’t. Because you’re me and, ideally, you’re wiser than the me I am right now. I’m sure you can see through my BS.
So what do I say to you?
I guess I can say with all sincerity that I hope I’ve made the right choices. I hope that you’re in a better place when it comes to self image. I hope you’re feeling stronger in your sense of self. I hope that you’ve stopped second-guessing yourself so much.
It’s also my hope that you’ve managed to set aside habits which aren’t serving your best interests. You know the ones I’m talking about.
I hope you’ve finally managed to start putting yourself first every once in a while.
That you’ve learned it doesn’t matter who you please when, at the end of the day, you can’t rest easy knowing that you’re not being true to you. What’s the point of making everyone else happy when you’re miserable?
I hope you’ve finally started letting things roll off your back. You know, instead of just saying that you will.
Be good to you. You’ve come a long way in your journey and while there’s a long way to go and a lot of dreams to claim, you’re worth the work. You’re worth the time and the effort.
You’re worthy of your own dreams. Be brave enough to remember that. I promise I’ll start today in order to make it easier on you.
You’re welcome.
Love (for real),
Me
I hope those things for you, too. I always thought those self-doubts, being so hard on ourselves, would begin to dissipate, but it seems to be WORK to get rid of them
I have confidence in you Jen that the future you? Will be exactly as you hope to be in this letter.
I have a feeling that your future self will be quite pleased with herself and the progress she’s made. Mostly because your current self is so mindful of the goals you’ve set for yourself. Beautiful post.
This is Beautiful Jen!
What an honest and open letter to yourself.
It will be great to read in the future.
I could have written that same letter to me and probably should
Oh wow, that was perfect and just the kinds of things you should say to yourself like when you say “you know which ones”..it’s so real and cuts through the BS to show that you know yourself, you know what you’d like to be different by the time you read this letter again.
I hope the today you and the future you both know how much each of you is loved…by me.
I love the line where you say you hope you’ve made the right choices for future you. I know just how that feels. I actually write a monthly letter to myself for a year from now (did this last year) and it’s amazing to see the difference one year can make. It’s also really great getting inspiration from myself of all places.
Absolutely LOVED this letter and sending you some hugs and admiration!
You can make this future you come true. I know it.
I love this- so much.
It’s honest and transparent and so, so admirable.
I love this line -I hope you’ve finally managed to start putting yourself first every once in a while.
And wow woman, have I ever missed you!
Beautifully done!
So sweet. What a nice letter to yourself. I think you’ll find all of those things when you get to whatever time this letter was meant.
High five, Jen. High five.
Wow. This is perfect. One thing I’ve really learned as I’ve gotten older is that I really, really need to be my own best friend.