Calligram

 

My Letter

Dear future Nicole,

    As I am writing this, it is 2025 which means this letter won’t reach you till 2045! As of recently, my life has been in the transitional period to what feels like adulthood. Right now, I am in my final semester of my senior year of college, so I am dealing with all the emotions and what feels like requirements of entering “real life”. By the time you are reading this, you will be well into this adult life, and I hope you look back and see how silly it was to ever worry. In the next 20 years, I hope to have many changes and new stories added into my life. To start, you better have travelled your heart out and went to multiple countries by now. To list just a couple, I'm hoping to have been to Thailand, Japan, Italy, Australia, and sooo many more. If you aren’t well traveled and well cultured by now that's upsetting. Besides traveling I hope your computer science degree paid off and you are somehow combining philosophy into whatever you do. I hope you are making some good money and able to use it to further your experiences and the people around you. Besides just money and experiences, I hope you have many people to share these experiences with, both new and old. I hope you are living every moment to the fullest and doing spontaneous adventures whenever you can. You better have owned a motorcycle, gotten a tattoo, surfed, gotten to go in a hot air balloon, honestly anything of that nature. But besides just me, I hope the state of the world is also going well. I hope science has continued progressing, (hopefully an answer to why/how the wave function collapses), as well as medicine and human kindness and decency progressing. You also better never forget the realness and emotions found in the little things in life just because you have experienced them more. Live everyday with wonder and whimsy like it's your first day alive while also living with passion and strength like it is your last. Overall Nicole, I wish you all the happiness, health, wealth, love, and kindness and just know that past Nicole will be behind you every step of the way!