Letter to future self

Beckett Hughes

3rd May 2024

Future Beckett 

Dear my future self,

I hope we are doing good in the future. I’ve always wondered how we would turn out in the future, growing up we’ve always felt like we were so old but we would feel so young at the same time. I want to believe that we have the perfect life that I want now in the future, but i know the likely of that happening is pretty low. All I hope for the future is that we are happy and in a place we enjoy in life.

For highschool there are many things i’ve been proud of during the years, but my top two would either be getting accepted to be a camp counselor which is something we both wanted for so many years, or doing all of the work on the beetle ourselves and learning all we can. Those accomplishments didn’t come without challenges though. We struggled with adhd and dyslexia, but one of our main hurtles was hurting our back over our junior year summer and ending up in the hospital because it took us away from camp and put us in a situation that we didn’t want to be in. But those hurtles mentioned or not taught us lessons about ourselves and life. We learned that life is what you make of it, you can change what is happening to you if you really try and work, Life is completely up to your choices. Looking back on our younger self I do believe that it would of been a great lesson to learn earlier on, but I would of told our younger self that we shouldn’t care what others think about us or what we do. Other opinions don’t matter to us and we should do what we see as right. 

I would like many things to happen for us in the future, the usual be rich and have a good looking wife and everything nice in the world. While I do want that I, I would much rather us be in a point of our lives that we are happy. I want us to be able to afford the things we want and need, have a wife and kids that love us and have friends and a community we can be apart of and enjoy. Our happiness is more important to me than status and how much we make. That idea though doesn’t keep me from worrying about the future and the life after graduation, I’m worried i’m not going to be able to do it or fail out or not be in a place in life that I want to be in. I hope our qualities of being able to be social and take care of others along with work ethics help us in the future and help us get to far places in our life. The people around us have also played a big role in becoming who we are, wether it’s our parents or grandparents, Jack, drew, or mason they all helped us get to the place we are at today. That place though I want to be where we are happy with the person we are, the place we are, and the person we are with in the next 5 years of my life, the life you have already lived. I hope that those people and ideas that I have keep me true to who I am and my beliefs and ideals.

I hope life has treated us the way we want and we turn out happy over everything. I hope that we have been able to succeed in the things we want to along with being able to enjoy and see everything life and the world has for us 

Sincerely,

Senior Beckett Hughes