Hello past me. This is you from the future.
Wow, it's been...**checks calendar**...eleven years? since I posted here. Time flies, I guess. What's the future like, you ask? Overrated, frankly. I'm definitely not where I wanted to be (but who even is?). In a lot of ways, I feel like I was doing a lot better when I was you. Depressing, huh?
I'm working on changing that, but the going is hard. A lot harder than I remember things being at your age, though maybe that's just the rosy-tinted glasses. I've made some good friends along the way though (lost some, too). Fell in love. Fell out of love. (Boys are the worst. I'm sticking to girls for the time being.) A lot of stuff has happened out in the rest of the world, but most of it's depressing so I'm going to skip over that for now. I've been to Burning Man, now. Peru, too. I'd like to visit even more places. Working on that is the current goal.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is that things could be better, but they're not terrible where they are. Time to try harder again, I suppose. Cross your fingers for me. With a little luck, I think I might just be all right.