A letter from May 07, 2025

Peaceful right?

Dear future me, Right now, I’ve received two scholarships to ASU, most notable of which being the three-year army ROTC scholarship. I hope your first year in Senior ROTC was amazing and stellar. Just last week I retired from being battalion commander and took the first steps towards the big army. As you're wrapping up your freshman year of college, I hope you kept the scholarship benefits and didn’t do anything stupid. My world right now is a lot of events and things. I own a lot of ASU clothes and khaki pants that I hope you still own. I live between both my mom and my dads house. I’m sure now that you have your own dorm, with your own stable living space, that you don’t miss the back and forth. Graduation is a week away. Right now, I’m doing a whole lot of nothing. I dedicated a majority of my time towards JROTC and DECA, and now that I am finished with that it’s time to pick up some personal hobbies. My hope is that in the summer, or your summer before college, that I get into golfing, and stand-up comedy. I also want you to focus a lot on physical fitness, but i'm sure by the time you get this letter you’re already an absolute unit. All my family is in my life right now, and so are my good friends, Dahlia, Yahir and Montse. Make sure to check up on them, especially Dahlia since she’s the furthest away. Hopefully you maintain regular contact with them. Hopefully you have the same girlfriend but if not, that sucks for you, because I have them right now, loser! This year was the most eventful year in my life. As I closed out JROTC and DECA with a bang, going to Florida and earning an honor unit with distinction. My senior year was incredibly successful, even if you don’t think so. I hope to carry this success into my freshman year of college, and hopefully you still feel the success I feel today. I predict that I will be more physically fit and absolutely crush my first year of college. I predict that I was on the ranger team because of my knowledge and fitness. I also predict that I am already in talks with being a squad leader or something more for my freshman year. Hopefully I also earned a summer internship with cadet command or even jump school already. Also, I better have good grades or I’m going to be mad at you from the past. I know it's impossible, i'll find a way. P.S. Send an email to Mrs. Sandoval and thank her for making this letter. Call your parents, they probably miss you, and call Dahlia. Check in on your friends. Check in on the cadets you left behind too, help them if they want to join you at ROTC. From the past, Robert Davis

Epilogue

about 8 hours later

Dear senior year robert

There was a lot of things you were hopeful for that I didn’t do. You got to keep your scholarships though so don’t worry. I can’t...

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Fo rof still nda sa n,fdresi rtehe lfimya ayrish isadttn oerm rae lla glohuath hetm. Ngano to his and twih him asplee u,as hetsiwreo hes lstil if oprd oyuer ot otu etg edifnrgril loes mhi husp. Nad up eokrb lgenrirdif tihw tmesno is yuo i,nfe ,ihintvrg ouyr adailh is. Ir,cen ethort i ?ts?als ehs and eth you noe and it fo ni uessg rgirenifdl wen lhwie si nyeoj hatt hre a hcum eknewed si ot oruy veeyr ees pnpeah hisgtn sbet wileh. Eewr ofr sey i hizacrma kwon, by gienb kiel evneroey wtb, taht tsi uoy dodteub. Etdsac oryu ddi eiitvn isnhtg oyu ouy gnh,ist gtear etxt adn sitll to. Cotr is lla be nad frfteo eb nad yuor of gte gnoinij at cna hnas ot i ubascee ysta i sua. Tjcor kcab i lal to to botua ggoni ma kalt ti. .
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Uoyr that ni uoy yrea rshuc i ddi’nt i fieadl ftris. Csholo oging idntd dan auqsd eyrou eemocb uoy otn ,eedlar to etg a na itdnd neprnstihi pjum yuo. Lwli tingtge oyu satp do fi, riredpsus fmro em at ned teh pu be i hws,eomo and adm. .
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Tol a i to weo ouy. Few amek onnag eht otehs mmeireos chsrhei lsta or'uye ekesw. Eth ewre and i tbu odwlu i dha you i uyo tforef do tlo if nwo, u'twlond acegnh tgri lfeet,nfyrdi a. A lo,t you wtne nad far idd it. Od het onw tnur ym asme ot ist. .
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P. S. Daylb a elat sduygnit awynays i but anfl,i isht ese dan at sti otn oluly rfo ghtni like owkn its tis im iw,tertn. Semfly wbt vsiti lilw i aaovsnld. Day odog uoy aectd evah a ill. Het etlret i gnnao rnhatoe rof fuuetr wiert iagan ma. .

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