I am about to embark on a magical journey through time.

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I made this thread because my teacher told me on Wednesday, that we should write a letter to ourselves, and then give the letter to him, so that he will mail the letter to us in 10 years. So I typed this essay type thing, basically telling myself how I'm doing now, in school etc etc. I burned some CDs for myself off Itunes. i even had one of my friends send me a conversation we had over AIM to me, that we shared earlier tonight. I out it all in my letter, resulting in about 30 pages off stuff. Excluding a printed picture of some stuff I've said on other forums. You know, in case my 25 year old self would care about that in the future. (I'm 15)
Anyway, leave a message for me, in case you want to say hi to me in 10 years, right now. Also, no I am not high.
But more importantly, thats not what I made this thread for. I made it, because I wanted to get your guy's opinions on doing this. Sending letters to yourself, and then reading them after a large period of time. I personally think its, sort of messing with time. It's a way of communicating with ourselves in an alternate universe. I dunno, that's just how I see it. What do you think of it? Leaving messages for yourselves to be opened in the years to come. i makes me thing, if we really have a destiny. If we have a destiny set in stone already, or if we can change it, and do whatever we want.
Say, I sent myself a letter, and it said: "DUDE! Do NOT become a brain surgeon! Please please, make sure you never become a brain surgeon!" and then, alright, I send it, forget about it, then start studying to become a brain surgeon.
All of a sudden, 10 years from now, I'm in medical school, and I get the letter, and stop it. And change my life.
I dunno, maybe that was already set in stone to happen. But whatever. Discuss what I've said, and maybe, if it's not to much, leave my 25 year old self a message.
 
In 10 years from now, you will be dead, replaced by a similar but quite different you with only some memories left of your previous self. Your letter should include anything you find important now and want to preserve in some form.

You can include this message from me to you if you want: there is literally no visible difference between a world with destiny and a world without it. Thus, how did people even come up with the idea in the first place? Destiny is a bunch of nonsense, go and make your own 'destiny.'
 
I've got a time capsule buried around with some pokemon stuff inside, think they were old crappy toys, but oh well I'll find out in the year 2025. But as for communicating with yourself 10 years apart, Do what I did, keep your old school work. I was having a clean out the other day when I stumbled across some of my own writings from years gone by. Most included obvious rip-offs of things I liked at the time (including FF7, DungeonKeeper and Zelda). Still, I laughed so much I cried when I read my story on the vampire mutant pink bunny rabbits which was wrote c. 1995 (I was 6/7 at the time).

Still I think you'll be pleasently surprised how much you have changed in those 10 years. Nostalgia is one of the best feelings to have IMHO
 
Ekypsekim said:
Anyway, leave a message for me, in case you want to say hi to me in 10 years, right now. Also, no I am not high.
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hahahahaha

But more importantly, thats not what I made this thread for. I made it, because I wanted to get your guy's opinions on doing this. Sending letters to yourself, and then reading them after a large period of time. I personally think its, sort of messing with time. It's a way of communicating with ourselves in an alternate universe. I dunno, that's just how I see it. What do you think of it? Leaving messages for yourselves to be opened in the years to come. i makes me thing, if we really have a destiny. If we have a destiny set in stone already, or if we can change it, and do whatever we want.
Say, I sent myself a letter, and it said: "DUDE! Do NOT become a brain surgeon! Please please, make sure you never become a brain surgeon!" and then, alright, I send it, forget about it, then start studying to become a brain surgeon.
All of a sudden, 10 years from now, I'm in medical school, and I get the letter, and stop it. And change my life.
I dunno, maybe that was already set in stone to happen. But whatever. Discuss what I've said, and maybe, if it's not to much, leave my 25 year old self a message.
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I think you must be a ridiculous person with very little conscience if you would drop out of medical school just because a 15-year-old you told you to.

I've done something like this twice, both times I got the letter a year after writing it. All this is is a fun little experience for you to see how far you've come. Nothing changes.
 
A 10 year span is much different than a one year span though. I imagine something like, graduating high school and then living on your own for a year would be a fun little experience, but a lot can happen in ten years. I won't provide example, I can't think of any specific ones anyway, but the time in between decades does in fact have a lot of change in it, look at other eras.

Sorry if I come off as a jackass with that. I guess I just expect myself to change a lot in the next ten years. Won't get my hopes up too high though.
 
note to self: put spaces in between paragraphs when posting topics on the internet
 
Ekypsekim said:
A 10 year span is much different than a one year span though. I imagine something like, graduating high school and then living on your own for a year would be a fun little experience, but a lot can happen in ten years. I won't provide example, I can't think of any specific ones anyway, but the time in between decades does in fact have a lot of change in it, look at other eras.

Sorry if I come off as a jackass with that. I guess I just expect myself to change a lot in the next ten years. Won't get my hopes up too high though.
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I know what you meant, I'm just pointing out that if I met myself from 10 years ago right now I'd probably be annoyed at conversing with him. Not because I was a 14-year-old douchebag, but because I'm so much more intelligent than I was then, and I've seen much more of life and experienced things my 14-year-old self couldn't imagine. There's not a damn thing he could say to me to change my mind about my life's path.

But I don't think that's true of all people. There are plenty of musicians who I wish I could force to meet their former selves to see what a fucking shithead they've become... their former selves would beat the shit out of the current them.
 
I had to do this too, and i basicly just worte about what was happening with the Packers, baseball, and what i was gonna do when i got home. Our teacher promised us that no one except us would see the letter until we graduated highschool. But here's the catch- what if you die? this happened to 3 kids and he made the desicsion not to open them and give them to their parents incase he had a bad day with his parents. Just a thought maybe don't say anything to bad about them.
 
I addressed this (to myself) in the letter. I made it clear to my teacher that if I died my parents would be able to open it. Even though it would be a bit embarrassing it would still be something good to remember me by, right?

Also if my teacher dies it gets sent to me right away.
 
Ekypsekim said:
Sending letters to yourself, and then reading them after a large period of time. I personally think its, sort of messing with time. It's a way of communicating with ourselves in an alternate universe.
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maybe you've been watching a little too much dr. who.

it'd be easier and more effective to just write diary entries and look back on them when you're 25, the whole purpose of it is nostalgia and gloating/depressing over how far you've advanced/receded, and laughing at yourself if need be.
 
I want to make sure you get this message in 10 years. Here it is

"Hi, remember me?
...
no?
...
Probably because i'm that guy that only posted in your thread to get his post count up.
...
kthanxbai"

Thats the entire message. Make sure you get it to him on time!
 
I ended up doing that once. We had to write a letter at the end of 8th grade, and we got them back when we graduated high school.
 
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