A bunch of letters

I'm not sure where I picked up the "habit" from, but at some point in my grade eight year I wrote a letter to the future me, my grade 12 self to be specific. To be honest, I didn't read the letter until a month or two ago (well into my first year of university), but it hit a bit harder as a result. Suddenly the last five years didn't seem as distant, and I saw how much I had really changed.

All in all, it was a really good reflection experience. A few days after reading that letter, I wrote another one, this time to my second year self. I can't see as far as my third year of uni, let alone my fourth year, and I just have this feeling that my second year will be really special (knock on wood for a good type of special).

So do it! Write a letter to yourself and open up about all your problems, the small ones, the ones that you don't think you can overcome, whatever. Write about how your day went, or how your ultimate games have been going, or maybe about how sad you are. Write something, and I promise you that in one year, two years, or five years, whatever, you will really appreciate it when you read it.

It's sorta like time travel. You have the ability to affect the future through writing this letter right now, and when you read that letter in the future, you will relive the past. Memories are just a diluted form of the past.