A Letter to Future Self

Dear Future Self,

Hope you are doing great!
While writing this you are in your late twenties. I’m writing this to you to let you know whatever you are now, and whatever you will be I’ll always proud of you. I know we had done our best to make you this. I want you to say you were fantastic in your younger days. You had tried to explore everything to discover your true self. You had a belief in being rare, and to maintain that belief you had tried many ways to know why you are like that. I hope you have an answer now. You have awakened your soul, I don’t know what you have accomplished materialistically but at soul level you are rich, you worked enough for it, I hope you had maintained this.

Some of your values I want you to always keep to yourself because these values are the only things you have earned yet so far. You learn solitude, learn to love yourself before anyone else, and learn to love and compassion. You learn to minimize your karmic debt, you tried to be loyal and honest to yourself. You have learned to answer yourself that is why you are responsible now. You tried to be human first, before being anything else. One of the hardest lessons you have learned yet to live in the present. Now you have started living in the moments.

Your life was a roller-coaster ride, with so many ups and downs and it is the truth of the life you can’t escape from it. You cried hard but laugh harder. You were loved immensely. You were compassionate, you have the ocean of emotions but you learned how to balance it.

What you have discovered yet

Family– a present you know that family is an integral part of you. You have a wonderful family. You know that they love you unconditionally especially your mom and dad. You know that you will always be in debt to them. So, I want you to suggest that if someone in your family has made any mistake, you need to forgive them because you had done many, yet your family forgives you and always loved you. If you are so busy right now in yourself spend time with them. You have learned to love and accept everyone. I hope now you don’t want to be a provider to your family, I hope you started believing that enhancing your feminine side to a family is also important. I hope you are happily married to the right man who lets your feminine and masculine side balance and helps you overcome your insecurities that “you need to be a provider to be valued”.

Career- In your early 20’s you used to think a career is the only definition of what you are, but now you understand that any work that you will opt for, which is good enough to fill your pocket and soul can be your career. As of now, you are a banker, blogger, and writer. But you have many ideas stored within you to opted some of them as your career. I hope
you have opted for one as your career that makes you happy and fills your pocket too.
You have worked for a very good organization and learned many things. I hope you have opted for the career that provides you freedom of time to travel and enough money to feed you and your family.

Money-  In your earlier times, you want to be a millionaire. You wanted a luxurious and lofty life for yourself, you worked for it, and wanted to earn more. Don’t know how much money you accumulated, which car you drive, and what brand you wear but I want you to learn money doesn’t define you. This is something you have to learn with time because I know you still have the desire for money, but I want you to invest money in creating experiences of life not in accumulating items for home and wardrobe.

Love– You know that self-love is great love, you don’t need to be loved by others to feel love. But I want you to know you were loved, In the process of loving others you learned to love yourself first. You were hard on yourself but with time you have learned how to love yourself. Dear future self I want you to pamper yourself and your loved ones. If you love them then show them, time never waits for the right moment you need to express the love now.

Relationship and marriages –
You are yet single and living your life happily. But I hope when you are reading this you are happily married in your life. I want you to know how obsessed you were once about the securities of your future. I hope now you know that marriage is not something you get from your birth. It is a contract between the two individuals who choose each other. It’s a relationship where two individuals unite and create a different world for themselves. It’s a matter of acceptance of your partner. I know one thing for now that things happen and no matter what you will be okay. What you believe as of now is marriage is not just about love, roses, lilies, and butterflies. It’s a commitment to togetherness, companionship, and friendship. 

Passion- This one was always hard to know what’s your real passion, In the search of real passion you have explored many things and still exploring. Hope to find you soon. There is nothing yet I have found, I am excellent at but I can let you know that I tried many things,  and in some I am good. There is one thing I am sure about, I can continue with is my writing spirit. But the real passion is to explore yourself and find the possibilities and adventure in life.

In a letter to my future self, I want you to write that you started living in the present, you have discovered the power of living in moments. You have found the key to happiness. You know the power of being your true self is very simple and it will never complicate things. You started to practice an optimistic approach towards the future and taking no regrets about the past. And this is your biggest achievement.

You love dressing in good clothes, love yourself, and present yourself in a good manner. You love styling yourself and I love this about you and I want it to continue. I know you must have cute dogs, a sweet family,  a career to pursue. 

Last but not least love yourself, take yourself on vacation, spend time with family and prioritize things because I know you are messy on this.  

I have many things to say but I hope to write you in my mid 30’s after gaining more experience from life.

Lots of Love
Shrutii