Future Me
So my friend is on facebook and says, this is an email I sent myself last year. And I read it and woah! it really is an email she sent her self a year ago, extremely personal but a year on she’s dealt with or been open about its contents by this point so happy to post it online. The concept intrigued me so I went onto FutureMe.com
A project inspired by a school assignment two blokes run the site for fun, and later for profit as many people volunteer their letters (name not included) to be public and are turned into a book. The email addresses and identities are kept anonymous but the letters can be read, so far around 15% of people have signed up for public letters. The boys on the site also accept donations through paypal.
So I wrote future Rachael a letter. It opened with a joke and ended with the deep realisation of my own faulty self esteem and marvelous over-achiever but totally low expectations special blend and that really I didn’t care if I had a job or a driving license or had lost 5 stones but I did hope that I will have lost that trait by next year and be more confident.
I also outlined what I was doing now and how I felt about it but not in so much detail. I have far too many thoughts and too many words as it is and with the NCTJ’s coming up word count is important. Sometimes I think I should be doing fiction rather than fact but 5 grand into a masters those thoughts are shepherded to the very darkest recesses of my mind!
I look forward to forgetting I sent myself the email and recieving it in the future, I am interested in what Future Me will be like…
