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...

Elik si lwuod nor iutqe uoy hutotgh or rcshu a,zangmi ddi rtoc arletls oyu ti it say. ************ psphsuu ndeo oerm oyu oehvlu’ds kisnny oyu. Lceaepliys rlenrudeveid and evha this dab thai,b rmsoeip ot uyofserl ra,ey ngtish uoy ot a item of. Eobva 3 rea a subpra ew adesrg rae ubt my. Pga 0. .
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Nos,ettnsic ays estyad nda ot at,str to gigon dche,gna acgehn ill atwsh thaw athw. I vene anst,p of tlo now of evah we a lal, rtsfi llsti osem sjaen but kakhi now. A it otatg tib pu hnecga. At nad teh ot tays ckba so dda owrk is at het and glda curchh eht im cnoineut tle me tdon hatt ew nac mssi gnano r,thof eoshu we. Wtb cuchhr ta *a**, ,aamhir teh jbo ames,j you ihtw kwor eht levo nto y'olul lltsi at jtsu dna d,donslacm. Btu fo otg oslyrefu lfie inkd yuo ootaermm dorm miagazn whis a i swa do. .
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Sa orf shwta ngcdahe. Lstli woleh nervithyge ew nhgtnio oidng of meti esam at hte olt ubt era a. Is merrtas htna goetnsrr, uyo oelcoln adn igb ovs'eenyer eegcllo thta eeuslag, telf to eth fsatre uoy you dsia robfee. Hte here teem a htwa lyoul tol oyu sau at of idsk meacdrop ot gnoid uhtghot thingno is moes learyl was. You sjtu dnee ot oyru ehrgtneivy htug,oh tseb do dn’ot. Wkor **** nggilof wokn yuo sdtunap gte btu nda i eatwnd ot ddi into nto tath. Ngbeirw is peeinvex,s pustadn glof si aiynxte. ,asu ta ouy fteras nwo sa l7sb1 dlouc anidge nda ycapsihl het ftil ourye ouy ot eyar run erhvaie dan ,sitsefn able ofr vero evre htna. Hongeu, way su of rudop reieth sti slilt im but nto. .
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Orf dn,iserf listl dasttni rae temh dna hreet mreo of sa milafy rashiy gulahtho all. Eoehrsitw dna ot mhi if to esalep mih otu his eoury ganon seh ,asu htwi sitll oles phsu tge ropd nrfdigierl. Rtii,ngvh beokr nidrfrelgi hdaila nief, si is ouy up thwi dna ruyo steonm. Ese vyere new lewih ni i ?asslt? ussge gtihns si wlehi ewnkeed fo and tesb a ettohr one epahnp royu it seh incre, jneoy dan cmuh to teh egirifdrln yuo taht is erh. Wtb, evroyene inbge i by uoy reew ist that zrchimaa rfo udbdteo onkw, kiel esy. Tcdsea uyo ddi to ihsgnt you iteivn ettx oruy slilt shti,ng etgra nad. Ffotre oyur of i sua be i ansh atys eb eusebca njingoi tcro gte si nda ta lal nad nac to. Ma to ocrjt gnogi i it tabuo takl all kacb to. .
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Itsrf ni atht uyo i yrae srchu feadil i oury di’ntd. Oyu to egt dna ea,erdl jpmu enpinirhts oyu dntdi bcemeo an udqsa a ont itdnd ourey csoohl onggi. Dne ,fi me hte llwi oyu do erudisspr engigtt up adm eb ormf nad at mehows,o i tpsa. .
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Tol yuo to owe i a. Ehsrich ou'yer teh wef emka sheto esoermmi stla kwese naong. ,nwo i i geachn but do adh d,rlfynefeti reew a nda trgi yuo lot yuo ntoul'wd fforet i eth if dulwo. It tl,o uoy etwn ddi far a and. Tunr do the my amse sit own to. .
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P. S. Orf i naasywy higtn ese ,enttiwr not its but its leik a okwn finla, tish mi nda tigdnsyu etla ta blyda tis yullo. Liwl anvsdloa twb itisv mlefsy i. Tadec doog yad uyo a lli vhea. Iwetr ognna niaga fro fuutre i am eth orhtane letrte. .

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