“Have you ever written a letter to your future self? What story would you tell them if you were writing one right now?”
I have wrote a letter to my future self. Actually, I think it was on New Year’s about two years ago, I decided to write letters to my future self for like the next 14 years. ‘Cause — you know, like all the way up until I was in college in like 2034. So I wrote letters to my future self then, but you know, those future letters are still not there. ‘Cause like a few days later, I forgot what I wrote and I wanted to read through them all, so I just ripped them all open and wrote them — and, uh, read them. So yeah, that did not last long whatsoever.
“What story would you tell them if you were writing one right now?”
Um, I would tell my future self, “Life’s going great right now. Sports are going great. Your friendships are going great. Um, and I would say {blows raspberry}.
“Know that sports own a special place in your heart, and without them you’re a completely different person. So continue to do sports because that keeps the you — that keeps yourself you. So just continue to do the things that you love. And make sure to make time — and make sure to make time to just, you know, take a break, have peace with yourself and do something you truly like to do.
“Because if you’re focusing too much on school work right now, you’re not having any fun. You’re not truly yourself. So, schoolwork is a priority, but sometimes you have to take breaks, or else your mental health is not going to be good. So just keep handling things and doing things you like along with the schoolwork that needs to be done.”
So I would probably write that letter for when I was in college, because I know there’s a lot of work that goes into college. But I feel like my future self needs to know to still make time for things that I love to do, so that’s what I would say.