Text Messages From Your Future Self
Some Things Worth Sharing #3
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If your future self could send you text messages, here's what they'd desperately want you to know…
You’re right now living in the good old days. Stop arguing with me. It’s true.
That trauma you think is too much for people? Your honesty about it will save someone's life someday.
Right now you worry a lot about saying the wrong thing. But later on, you will worry about all the things you wish you had said.
You will never stop being weird. You’ll just get better at being weird. And prouder of it.
Every time you think you're drowning, you're actually swimming toward better shores.
Right now your knees work. Your bladder works. So stop whining about your body. Someday you will cherish every squishy, imperfect, miraculous inch of it.
You're not behind. You're inside a much larger story that's still being written.
Your credit score isn't your worth. Neither is your skincare routine. (But keep buying that expensive moisturizer anyway.)
The right time never comes. The time you have NOW is the right time. (Also, when you’re anxious, just dance more.)
That friend you keep meaning to call? Call them back. They're still here. The last time you talk to someone, you won't know it's the last time.
The way the light falls across your unmade bed? It becomes a kind of artwork that I look back on fondly. Appreciate it more now.
I remember texture more than plot. How sunlight felt, how hugs felt, how grass felt beneath feet. Don't fast-forward through today.
Sometimes you think you're being dramatic. But what you’re really being is truly alive.
Your rage is needed. It's clarity. Use it to build something better than what made you angry.
Everything "ordinary" becomes the gold I mine for happy memories. It's not the milestones… it's the small pauses that make life luminous.
Your messy home, your imperfect relationship, your uncertain career? I miss every chaotic second of it.
You will fall in love with the wrong people at exactly the right times. These are not mistakes. They are the curriculum.
That job you didn't get? That apartment you couldn't afford? Plot armor. You were being protected from a story that wasn't yours.
You're allowed to change your mind about who you thought you were. Growth is not betrayal of your former self. It’s evolution.
Everything you think is permanent is temporary. And everything you think is temporary is all you really have.
You think you're being careful with your heart. But sometimes you're simply being stingy with your life. Live boldly.
That trip you keep postponing? Take it. That risk you're avoiding? Take it.
You think you’re killing time. But time is killing you. Appreciate the absurd circus of your life while the tent’s still standing.
Most of your best decisions looked like mistakes. And most of your mistakes were just research for better choices.
Stop worrying about your phone battery dying… and start realizing that your actual “life battery” is running down in real time. Be more alive… now!
Which messages hit you hardest?
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I want to know what your soul needed to hear today.
One day you'll ache to return to this messy, busy life you keep rushing past.
The trick is to appreciate your life now… before it turns into nostalgia.
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Some hard hitters! Almost like these Truths were supposed to find me exactly now! Thanks
Number 5 hits home for me. Just bought the book on kindle. Oh the things I wish I did and said before I left my mom before she passed. Thank you for reminder. Got to stop wasting this valuable time.