Hello future me!
How are you? I hope you are doing
fine and in the pink of health. In case you are confused, I am the 17 years old
you who still wear a large square-framed glasses with some Hello Kitty
stickers on it. I could not stop hoping that you will not be wearing
this in the future. Anyway, it feels funny writing to you but realizing
that we are having 20 years age gap, I know we are not having a common feel
about this. Don’t be scared, okay. This is just me.
I am writing this letter to
convey some of my hopes for our lifetime achievements. I was thinking of
keeping this matter to myself but I reckoned that it would work out better in a
team work. Therefore, I choose you as my partner to accomplish great things in
our life and make the sixty years old us proud and happy as she goes down the
memory lane. I just could not wait to set the ball rolling!
Gruelling and eye-opening life I
have up to this age taught me that we should not be self-centred upon planning
our dreams. We ought to share it with our family, friends and the society
because they deserve it. I hope you are still holding on to this mentality.
With this in mind, I hope we will involve in more voluntary works and charity
movements so we could ease the burden laid on the shoulders of the people in
need. In the meantime, I hope we will elevate to higher pace by helping needy
people in other countries too. We surely could kill two birds with one stone
because we are able to travel to many countries in the world. We will learn new
languages and cultures besides sharing good times together with less fortunate
people.
Apart from that, I hope we grow
up living our dreams to be a successful surgeon. Despite having intense
competition and narrow opportunities, I hope we will get through it and gain
the scholarship to further our medical study. Remember how tiring it was to
maintain good grades in every examination? How about the sleepless nights we
had just to make sure we could finish our revision on time? And do you remember
how many days we have to bear having a dark spot under our eyes? I just hope
they will soon be reimbursed with a roll of certificate in our hands. Anyway,
if we made it, we should work at the National Heart Institute of Malaysia so we
could help to treat people with heart problems. By working there, I consider it
as a blessing in disguise because besides meeting a lot of optimistic patients
with a strong heart, we are capable of putting smiles on their faces and build
up a wall of hope for them. It would be the greatest satisfaction of all time.
As for our social goals, I hope
we still befriend Julie and Marzia because they are very fun to hang around
with. Julie who is always cheerful and talkative, makes the atmosphere alive
with funny jokes and endless laughter. On the other hand, Marzia who seems to
be a lot more timid and shy has always been a good listener and the wisest one.
The presence of these two people paint colourful rainbow in our life. I hope
this friendship would last until we age and become old.
I also hope that we will have a
great teamwork with Marzia and Julie in the national water polo team. Although
we joined the team a little bit later than them, I hope we could cope faster
and be among the best. Therefore, there will be no impossible that our team are
going to be the greatest with the will of the intelligent trio. Hence, we
should work harder with other teammates in order to be qualified for the
international water polo game.
As for our personal achievements,
I hope we will work out for a jaw-dropping beautiful body like our favourite
idol, Jennifer Lawrence. We should eat healthily and have a balanced lifestyle
to accomplish the goal. With that fit body, it is a bonus point for us to make
another goal becomes reality which is to set new national record for longest
distance sea swimming. I realized that this quest is nearly impossible and not
a bed of roses unless we put our effort for an extra miles and enjoy doing it.
Our family would be proud if we could make it.
Apart from that, I hope we could
develop into a better writer from time to time. We should read more and
practice writing as much as we could as writing is like doing art between blank
spaces on a piece of paper. The beautiful thing about writing is when we are
able to express every hopes and feeling that is bottled up in our hearts, just
like how I feel when writing this letter to you.
Dearest future me,
I would end this letter telling
you that you are most capable for anything you want in life. You are the king
of your soul. Time will run and we would grow old but we should always live up
our hopes so we can be proud of our lifetime achievements. I strongly believe
that we could get through any obstacle and all we need to do is to take time to
embrace every moment in our life. You are probably in your 30s by now and I
wonder how much have you discovered in life. Anywhere you are right now, I
shall give a piece of tender advice that ‘life is a journey and not a race so
enjoy every second of it with your whole heart’.
Sincerely,
Syahirah Omar
