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LetterApril 11, 20262 min read

A Letter from My Future Self

A note to a younger self about the life ahead: love that lasts, work that helps people, and the reminder to stay silly, kind, and interesting.

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Love, growth, and future hope

Heyo! 👋

You've cured cancer! Just kidding. You never went to pursue your career in medicine (not that you wanted to).

What I will say is as much as people have pictured you to be the one to do so, you've achieved so many great things in your life that you couldn't even imagine in your current time.

You have maintained over 30 years of marriage with the love of your life, Lilly, who supports you in all your crazy endeavors even to this day.

You've built a way to spread the happiness that you experience day to day to all of the most important people around you (No spoilers on how 🤫)

You've helped so many people, directly and indirectly, in your own personal fight to make the world a better place.

You will have grown so much over the years in your wisdom, strength, and courage that our insecure 15 year old self would be yearning at the idea of the man that you will become.

Don't get too cocky as you still have a long road ahead of you, but know that you will always have the love and support of your family and your community from your present to when you get to my age. It has always been what's driven you to achieve great things and to keep pushing the envelope of the possibilities of what you could do.

Stay silly and kind and all sorts of interesting! It's what we do best 🙂

I love you ❤️

- JP

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