[ WP ] You write a note to your future self . When you store it , you find another note there- a response from your older self .

Listen here, me. Where do you get off thinking you know something more about our life than me? You have no idea what sort of life we ’ ll live, what we ’ ll have been through and what we ’ ll have learned. You think because you ’ re young and enthusiastic and filled with hope that you ’ ll be able to remind me of how I “ used to be ” and I ’ ll change for the better? Well that ’ s bullshit. The only thing we are back then was stupid. We ’ ll make the choices we ’ ll make for good reasons, you know? You don ’ t understand that we ’ ll need to make sacrifices, that we ’ ll have to make concessions on our plans and dreams. So shut up with your guilt-riddled questions about where we are in life. No, I ’ m still not with Erin, she was a bitch who ’ ll cheat on us. And leave us. Yeah, she ’ s the one who left. No the band isn ’ t famous yet. We stopped playing drums when we got out of college, as a matter of fact. Actually, I haven ’ t even talked to Steven or Paul in years. For all I know they could be married with kids. Or dead. I don ’ t know. And No, for god ’ s sake *no, * we haven ’ t saved the stupid world by getting into politics and becoming a great humanitarian. You just aren ’ t that likeable, or lucky, or talented. You ’ re just gunna end up working phone support and pushing sales to get that commission that will help cover the car payment. 
 
 Past me… I ’ m- I ’ m not sure if the fact that you ’ re reading this means the future is inevitable. Because if it is… I just want to tell you, to tell you that I ’ m sorry. I ’ m sorry for the choices that have brought me here, and I ’ m sorry that they ’ re also the choices that will bring you here too. Because I might be you, but I know you aren ’ t me. Not yet, at least. 
 
 But if- if the future *isn ’ t* set in stone, if there ’ s still a chance that your future is not this one, please *please* don ’ t waste it. Just- just stay on the path you ’ ve set for yourself. Because that path doesn ’ t lead here, where I am. I took a wrong turn, a few of them. I got lost on the way. I know you can see the destination just up ahead, I remember that much, so… so please don ’ t take a detour just to go around the potholes, because you might never get back to the main road again.
