Dear Past Self,

Hey! It’s been a while. I never got the chance to thank you for what
I become now, and please accept my apology for that.
Since I owe you my sorry, I guess I must tell you the great things I
am experiencing now. Yes, I am currently struggling. I am still standing at
the starting point of the long aisle of success, but I am starting to stumble
and fall. I failed so many exams and turned my efforts into bubbles. But
you know what is ultra-mega shocking behind those pain? The idea of
giving up never crosses my mind. Yeah, I know. I know you’ll be amazed
for I followed this character you have during your reign. Therefore, I must
say you become a great teacher of the lady I become now.
Thank you for all the learnings I harvested from you. I become
stronger from the realizations you made, from the decisions you took and
from the memories you embarked. I remembered you’re a crybaby
despite the cheerfulness you show to people, you easily cry for things like
witnessing a mentally-challenged lady got teased by children. Then she
looked at you and called you as her daughter, you cried hard back then
and even hugged her. However, in the end, you were scammed by her
drama and eventually demanded you to give her some pennies. Now as I
reminisced, I come to realized that because of this crybaby, crying is no
big deal for me, it doesn’t not change the way I think of how strong I am.
I cried because I stumbled, got bruises and hurt but I stand afterwards
and wiped my tears off. I promise to never forget you, you are a big
chunk of the entirety of my life.
I know I will be like you someday, I’ll be called as another past self
of this lady. But I am confident that the future Stephanie will keep me, for
you as my past self made it great in the first place.
Respectfully yours,
present

Dear Future Me,

 Buddy! It’s me your past self. You’re asking me why I wrote you a
letter? Well not because you did something wrong but because I’ve seen
your growth and I’m rooting for you. You made me so proud for what you
become now.
And by the way, aside from congratulating you, I also would like to
give you some piece of advice and request. One advice is that, please do
not stop from learning. I know you want to do something more than you
have today. Go and explore on new great stuff, do not cage yourself and
live the life you ought to have. However, on your journey please bring the
lessons I’ve learned which resulted to what you are now. Yes, you are on
the peak of your success, but there is still more to life. There will be more
happiness and pain ahead of you and you must be prepared. Life is a
crossroad, you have to decide to which way would like to go and I am
very confident you will choose a better one.
About my request, please when voyaging along the wide sea of
opportunities and explorations do not leave mama behind. Apart from me,
she holds a big role in the life you have now. Love her more as much as I
did before. Now that you have no other things to excuse to, no more time
allotted for the crammings from school. You have all the time to pay back
the good things she made only for you. She loves you very much and I
hope you would see that today. Uhhh, I’m a bit teary eyed right now since
I lost the chance to hang around with her because I am to busy with my
other things. Please do it for, it’s time for her to unwind and enjoy the life
she deserves. Say that you love her every single night before going to
bed. I was not able to do that back then for we were not on the same
clock, we do not go to bed on the same time, our time do not match
really well. But I remembered when we were still young, she always says
that to you every single night but instead of replying loudly, you replied
back with cringe. That is the biggest regret I actually made.
But you still have so much time with her, she’s a pretty cool
mother, she goes along with the trend except for the gadgets though, do
not pushed her to do that, learn it from me.
I think it is now the time for me to park my pen, I have said
enough, and I know you would gladly do my request. Send my regards to
mama and tell her I loved her so much from the very beginning of my life.
Yours truly,

Past self