To My Future Self

Dear Future Self, I imagine you are living a high-tech life reading this, but listen: I have a few things to tell you, so be all ears!
I bet if you look at my pictures, wishing you had my youth, my energy and you start to think how glorious the times with me were. True, but please don’t forget how challenging it was too. Don’t fall into the trap and glorify the past. The most important is always the now, absorb it and dive into it! It was my responsibility to live the past and I did to the last second. So no regrets, I took care of partying, of hugging everybody you love, wearing all the glitter, staying up long and spending all your money (oops). Focus on the good news: I took a lot of pictures to make it easier for you to remember everything.

Future Self, I hope you thank me for carrying you through so much. Whatever you have and wherever you are: It’s because of me. Because of the decisions I made, the opportunities I saw, and the visions I had. I hope you are happy and that all my tears and all my sweat were helpful to bring you to a good place. You matter to me and I’ll never give up on you. Your body and soul carries the marks and wounds of my mistakes and victories as well as the wrinkles caused by worrying and a lot of smiling.

Please be proud of the signs of time and don’t forget that I fought hard and pushed myself a lot to become you. I don’t know you yet, but I want you to be fabulous. You owe me that. Despite a lot of sad things and challenging situations, I managed to stay colourful and inspiring, I had the goal in my mind that you could forget about the pain and keep the glitter. Enjoy it, please!

I don’t feel like I need to give you a lot of advice, since you carry everything I know within you. If you are like me you care about people you love, eat healthily and exercise. I can’t imagine you gave up my discipline, my will to shine and my stubbornness to be bent, because those things lie at the roots of who we are.

Just one more thing for now: I would like you to remember where we come from. Not to go back there, but to see how far we came. Be proud and know that your journey was long and unique. And oh my: I wish you could show me the fancy technology you have over there…