Both "Dear future me" and "Dear past me" because I'm a little shit.
the get your shit together edition of this meme / @leafmedic
I’m sure you’re going to look back at this with some sort of comment. It’s going to be incredibly fucking funny. You’re going to laugh at it with friends and use it to justify your stupidity before you come home and fall asleep alone.
This is supposed to be something positive. If I see a positive outcome in my mind I can create it for myself.
I don’t see how anything good is going to come from this and I don’t want to think about it anymore.
You’ve shown an astounding level of stupidity despite that fancy degree you have in your back pocket. I mean, really, looking back on all the bullshit stunts you’ve (I’ve) pulled, I’m amazed you made it out of any of your messes in one piece.
I remember writing this the first time. Thinking to myself God, how stupid of a concept is this, writing a letter to yourself in order to… what? Better highlight the extent of your failures? Create a bulleted list of your shortcomings with an emphasis on your major fuck ups?
I hope I’ve grown since then. I can still make those lists in my head (and somehow, all my crimes against her are at the top of them, always first before anything else), but writing them down seems unnecessary. It’s giving life to thoughts that might be unfair and cruel. It’s giving myself an excuse to believe they’re true when she tells me they’re not.
You’ll do okay. You’ll grow out of this. You’ll see that when she tells you there’s something more than an ugly, rotted knot inside you, she’s not lying to you. Sakura doesn’t do that.
You don’t deserve her yet, but I promise you can. Just listen. Grow. Let yourself move forward. Write all those stupid letters your therapist tells you to write until you’ve exhausted all of your ugly thoughts. Sharing them with her is the most terrifying thing you’ll ever do, but I promise from all the pain you feel in that moment, your recovery is going begin to grow.
Or blossom. Or whatever metaphor I’m supposed to use for this.
It’ll get better. Be patient. Be kind to yourself. Be kind to Sakura, because she didn’t decide to stand beside you just to suffer through all of your pain without any end in sight.
I love you very much and please grow out of that terribly embarrassing Adele phase,