Dear Future Me

Dear FutureMe,

This is me in 2012 writing to you in 2025.

I’m writing  this letter so that you have some memories of your  past just in case you forget some of your ambitions for the future.

At the moment I'm having a look at some photos of myself and my relatives and I'm thinking about what I was like when I was younger, what I expected my future to be and in fact, these childish dreams and questions aren't so stupid, so I just thought that writing a couple of things, which will be read some years later, might be a nice surprise for you and you might be able to enjoy this time comparing life styles and seeing if my expectations came true.

I’m in my senior year in high school trying to make up my mind about what to study and what to do with my future.

I’ve got quite clear that I’d like to have a degree in business, so you will probably be in a company working in the marketing sector or in the financial sector.

I hope you will be enjoying the job and that you will become a well-known business woman one day.

As far as love and family is concerned, in 2015 I will be 30 so let me tell you that I believe it is time to settle down and have a family provided you have found the love of your life or somebody who will make you happy.

Try not to forget that you were also a teenager and don't ever let go your little child that is inside you which will really make you enjoy life with your kids and friends 

I hope by now you will have tried to make your dreams come true, travelled a lot and enjoyed your last years of freedom because from now on, you’ll have to bring up your children and let them to their own devices as your parents allowed you to do.

I wish you all my best for the rest of your life.

Take care,

'Present me' Maria.

How do you feel being 17?

Tired of being 17 and being treated like a child but also afraid of becoming an adult and considering yourself not being able to face real life problems?

Dear friend, I can understand how frustrated you feel.

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve noticed how fast life runs. Now that I’ve grown up and that I’ve become a mature girl I can see my last 17 years as if they were just 4. I had a wonderful childhood and fantastic teen years and it’s pretty sad to realize that it’s all gone, I will never have the chance to live it all again, indeed.

To be honest, on the one hand,  I would love to be a teenager  forever without any more worries than getting up every morning  to go to school, hang around with friends and a couple of love problems which make you drop a few tears from time to time but that will teach you and help you to become a mature person.

But on the other hand, even though I reckon being young  makes you feel on top of  the world most of the time, there is a wide range of things we are not allowed to do just because we don’t have the right age; such as, going into clubs or getting  the driving licence for moving from one place to another without depending on the public transport and their timetables, which occasionally drive me mad and get on my nerves.

To put it in a nutshell, as I said before, although I’d love to be young forever, life has its stages and we will have to learn to take the most positive aspects about each one.

I feel quite upbeat for my future, that’s why I feel we shouldn’t worry  about future problems any more and from now on, try to live each second of the life as if it was the last one.

TEMPUS FUGIT SO... CARPE DIEM!