Yesterday, while digging through the many boxes of my childhood to find a journal, I stumbled across forgotten photos, secret diaries, and a number of graded school papers. I also found a sealed envelope with my name on it dated 02/16/1999. Underneath that it says "Do Not Open Until 02-16-10." I know this envelope. I remember writing those dates and my name and then hiding it under my mattress. I have thought about this envelope often yet I can't remember what I wrote in that letter. Was it a list of goals I should have accomplished by then? If so, why did I seal it up in an envelope just to forget about it a few weeks later? Maybe it's a secret that I felt needed to be hidden for eleven years. It's dated two days after Valentine's Day. What happened on Valentine's Day 1999? My memory is impeccable except when it comes to things about my life that are important. Who does that?
Well, in two weeks I'll let you know what that letter says. Until then, it's just sitting on my computer desk waiting for me.
What do you think it says? Have you ever written a letter to yourself? If so, did you seal it and forbid yourself to read it until years later?
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8 comments:
Ooh, how exciting! Now I'm itching to know what your letter says! I wonder if it talks about meeting a cute boy, or something romantic like that? I wrote a letter to myself back in the first grade as a project for school - I have no clue where it is now!! :/
Wow, that's very interesting. I have never written any letter to myself but I used to write diary when I was younger. It's so much fun to read about the past events.
I have one! I'm not supposed to read it until my oldest kid turns 14. I don't remember much about it, but I know one thing I put in was that I had colored my fingernails with a marker that day just to be weird, so I need to remember that I was weird as a teenager, just like my child probably is.
Oh my I cannot wait to find out what you wrote to yourself!! So amazing and fun.
I'm totally anxious. Sarah- when you're oldest is 14? What the what? You're even crazier than I am- and I like it!
we wrote letters in our 9th grade seminary class to be sent to us by our Seminary teacher ten years later. He actually sent them! When I got it, I opened it and inside was a dollar for in case I was poor, the name of the boy I liked and said "I hope that you are married to (insert boys name here) or someone like him". There was other nonsense...nothing earth shattering. Darn.
We should start digging up the backyard to see if you left any time capsules that you forgot about.
The point was we were supposed to open it when our kid was the same age we were, I guess. I need to dig around my boxes back in California to find that!
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