be your own storyteller

In recent years, different types of challenges have become popular online, including the "dear 17 challenge" (for a seventeen-year-old self) that I read about a celebrity participating in the entertainment news today. What is this kind of thing that writes letters to your past or future self? What is its appeal?

I remember meeting futureme.org from the Internet more than ten years ago (it is still there). As the name suggests, you can use this website to write a letter to your future self, and then choose to receive the letter after a certain year or a specified date.

Looking through the records, I wrote to myself five years later on this website on March 30, 2007. On March 30, 2012, I did receive a letter from my past self via email (actually I had forgotten about it at the time). At that moment, reading the blessings and admonitions I sent to my future self five years ago, I really felt all kinds of feelings in my heart. During those five years, I really got my wish, devoted myself to the writing ministry, and even (excessively) completed my theological training; on the other hand, it took me five years to let go of some unfulfilled wishes in this life. Reading this letter is a bit like reading a prophecy to myself.

Today in 2020, rereading this letter, I can't help but ask, "Am I really able to predict the future, or do I internalize these aspirations into goals for progress, and then move towards these goals, step by step to the end?" , I read this letter again today, and I feel that I was helpless back then. I just want to break free from the barriers and hope that my future self will live better than the past.

Write a letter to your future self, so that you can turn all sadness and disappointment into motivation to move forward, encourage yourself to go on, and hope that your future self will be more diligent, mature, practical, positive, and more motivated than you are now... In short, I hope become better yourself. Write a letter to your past self, and use this to count the bits and pieces along the way, whether it is sadness or joy, it doesn’t matter what the result is, the most important thing is to tell your past self: “I finally made it through / I tried my best / I finished it. !" No regrets!

Who would want to be worse?

Therefore, the different challenges that have appeared in recent years just reflect that life is full of challenges. Whether external or internal, challenges are opportunities to break through the status quo. People always love to pursue beauty and growth, accepting challenges is like giving oneself a chance to become better. If you think you're good enough, don't think so.

Suddenly I really want to write to my future self again, it is to give myself the courage and goal to move forward again, so that I can regain my strength in a life that has been stagnant! No matter what the result is, looking back in the future, at least know that you have worked hard, paid, and tried.

Let us be the storytellers of our own life, telling unique stories with our lives. Not to inspire others, but to make myself feel free!