Writing letter to the future is a very good idea.
I like clicking on the “View Public Entries” option to read the letters others have written.
Some are religious:
He has risen! Mark 16:6
Alleluia!
Some are letters written to others:
Dear Norman,
I stumbled upon this site while doing research for an article that I’m writing. Today’s date is February 1, 2005, and it’s approximately one o’clock in the afternoon. Outside, the sun is already starting its slow journey across the blue-stained sky. I was eating a plate of orange wedges earlier, wishing that you were here because you always eat the other half of the orange when I’m not looking…
Some are reminders:
Dear FutureMe, Hey you hows it going? im fine just drinking some Guiness thats on special offer at alldays (remember that TINY flat you and Kathryn used to live in, its from the one near there) Anyway the reason im sending this is I figured 35 (30 for Kathryn) would be a good time to start having kids so just saying well done if you have already or get on with it! if you dont . Anyway see you later (literally) good looking!
bye from me and kathryn (aged 24 and 19)
Wouldn’t it be lovely to get a letter from your past, reminding how you good thngs were? Or reminding you how bad they were and hoping for a better future?
I think I will have to begin writing some of my own.
I’ll share one with you:
Dear You,
Remember when you and That Husband used to turn to each other on a regular basis and say “We’re married!”? And you said it because you were so ridiculously happy that you needed to make sure it was really true.
I hope you still do that.
Love, Me.
January 21st, 2009 on 8:53 am
I’ll admit half of the reason I even keep up with this blogging thing is so at some point in the future I can stumble across it again and read through all the weird random posts I made about pointless wedding stuff and a few that offer a peak into my life.
That’s also why I am doing my best to not give up on the picture a day thing so when I’m say 35 and stumble across all those images and words about what life was like as a newlywed I can relive it a bit.
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January 21st, 2009 on 11:39 am
We led an exercise like this at a retreat – where you wrote a letter to yourself and then we sent the letters out in the mail six months later. It was really interesting for me to get my own letter in the mail; it had been long enough that most people probably forgot about the letters or had put it out of their mind. I liked revisiting the day and reliving some old thoughts.
I also really enjoy looking back at old journals, I can lose full hours to re-reading them. Some things are pretty insightful, but its also fun to laugh about things that seemed SO serious at the time, but no longer make any difference at all.
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January 21st, 2009 on 11:19 pm
There is a really good book that I just love to re-visit from time to time.
‘What I Know Now… Letters to My Younger Self’ by Ellyn Spragins
The author asked prominent women from varying backgrounds to write a letters to the women they once were- of advice and insights… These include Madeliene Albright, Queen Noor of Jordan, Cokie Roberts, Naomi Wolf, Eileen Fisher, Jane Kacmarek, Olympia Dukakis, Macy Gray, Maya Angelou, Barbara Boxer, Kitty Kelley, Lisa Scottoline, & Breena Clarke.
Check it out when you can. =o)
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January 22nd, 2009 on 3:43 am
Awwwww : )
I always thought this was a cool idea, but the chances of me having the same email address in a time far enough away for me to have forgotten what I wrote seem pretty slim.
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January 22nd, 2009 on 7:00 am
I love your last letter … “We’re married!”. Oh, that makes me tear up.
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