#Microblog Monday 401: Letter to Yourself
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There’s this website where you can send an email to your future self, to be delivered on a certain date. You write it now and then choose whether to deliver it in a year or three years or on a certain date, and then you forget about the email and it arrives in the future.
Though you can do the same thing with scheduled send in most email programs. You could write yourself an email, schedule it to go out at some point in the future, and then be surprised (somewhat) when it arrives.
I don’t even know what I would tell my future self. My past self, I would tell her plenty. But my future self should be telling me things.
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I like to go over emails that I sent in years past. I don’t remember the daily minutiae, and it’s good to have reminders.
I agree totally with your last sentence. But the idea is intriguing – a future blog post maybe?
This sounds like a modern-day time capsule! And also reminds me again of Julie Nolke’s YouTube series “Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self” — which now has a Part 7. PART 7!!! WTF. But it is sort of what I imagine this to be like. I agree, let’s get that future self to spill some beans!
I feel like I would mostly tel my future self memories. “Remember the random day, we went to the beach and it was one of those perfect days with friends?” or “I know you would have forgotten how miserable this experience was but this is what you _really_ felt going through it”. I feel like our memories are never quite the same as the current living experience and it’s always interesting to see that.
OMG @Jess that series is still going on!?!!