Dear Fourth Grade Me, It’s going to be okay. Trust me, it will. I know it seems as if the whole world is against you right now, but it’s not. Fourth grade wasn’t a great time for me, and you will remember it for a long time. I still remember those awful people and how […]
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Dear Nilanjana Rai, Hi, hope you are doing fine. I believe you are either A) eating at the cafeteria alone — which is not because you don’t have any friends, just for the sake of not getting hurt — or B) you might just be worrying about what all you did to others and what […]
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To the Person I Thought I Was, High school has changed you. It has made you cold. Buried beneath the layers of the façade you cake on, you are still there, the real you. It will take some time to dig her back out, but she will see the light of day eventually. Right now, […]
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October, 2015 Dear Future Me, Stop it. Stop doing the things that suck the life out of you right now. Stop giving people love and attention who make you feel bad about yourself. Stop this activity that you’ve never even liked but only did because you were expected to. Stop taking the advice of people […]
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Birds are mocking me, Perched upon the branches of my thoughts Along my stream of consciousness. Calling and tweeting, they Keep me awake at velvet hours (The time they are the loudest). They flew in one day, long ago. They seem to have multiplied As time passed by. These birds have made a trade Of […]
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Dear Me, I haven’t spoken to you for so long. I haven’t had the courage to. But today is the day, the day I finally pour my heart out, even though you’ll never read it. Today, you’re eighteen. Yes, that’s right. Weren’t you dying — oh, what a poor choice of words — to turn […]
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Dear me, I hope a couple of years from now you’re okay. I hope you’re able to read this not as a ghost but as a much better person. I hope as you’re reading this you’re either over him or having a good relationship with him. I know he promised that he’d come back for […]
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Dear Future Me, So, what’s it like? You must’ve gotten into a good college and gotten a good job and changed the world, right? At least, I hope so. We had everything planned out — graduate college and MIT with a major in quantum physics, become an aerospace engineer at NASA, and get the […]
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My Dear Shadow, How is it on the dark side? Do you ever think about where you come from? How your presence is because of me? Do you hear music? Can you feel the soft warmth of the sunset? Can you touch fabric? Have you ever felt comforted by the single stroke of a paint […]
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