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  • Bright Places,  Dear Me

    You Are Anything But Average

    Mar 10, 2020

    Dear present me, I know it feels like the walls are caving in on you. You have bad day after bad day after bad day. You’re exhausted all the time and you feel like your friends are getting bored of you. You’ve been on dates with boys and girls alike, but nothing ever happens because you’re bad at relationships. You’re…

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    Dear Future Me: Times Will Change

    Aug 14, 2019

     February 28, 2018 Dear Future Me, Times will change. Right now, I am in the calm before the storm. Along with times changing, relationships (with friends, parents, and siblings), the structure of my life, and the way I view things will change too. Somethings, though, must stay the same. Stay optimistic. Life is not going to go smoothly the whole…

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    Dear Present Me: Your Imagination Is Power!

    Jul 9, 2019

    Hi Margaret, the insecure version of my present. I can feel what is seeping through your bones right now. I know how hard you try to seize your tears when the worst thing hits you like a bullet shot your heart. I even saw how your face reddened while clutching your jaws tight to keep from screaming. Yes, the end…

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    A Letter to My Three Future Mes

    May 15, 2019

    Querida Ashamed Future Me, I hope you know that you’re not the only one making mistakes. Every piece of guilt you feel—for being absent in a relationship, for forgetting a promise you made, for shouting at someone you care about in anger—you must remember everyone is making those same mistakes. It’s important that you feel this guilt—for it can help…

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    Dear 4th Grade Me: It’s Going to Be Okay

    May 1, 2019

    Dear Fourth Grade Me, It’s going to be okay. Trust me, it will. I know it seems as if the whole world is against you right now, but it’s not. Fourth grade wasn’t a great time for me, and you will remember it for a long time. I still remember those awful people and how they made me feel very…

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    Be You, For You

    Feb 20, 2019

    Dear 18-year-old me, Hola, amiga, how ya’ doing? I believe you survived high school. Congrats. However, today I lay on my bed perplexed. For whenever I think about my future, my heart almost skips a beat, I get goose-bumpy, and my feet get cold and numb. As for years to come from now, I’ll be reflecting upon the choices I’ve…

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    To The Me I Once Was

    Jan 12, 2019

    Dear Past Version of Me, Don’t worry, we’re still alive. You didn’t think we were ever going to see this day, and you had almost given up on it so many times, so I guess the most important thing I need to tell you is that it happens. I know that right now it doesn’t seem like it will, but…

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    Dear Me I’ve Never Met

    Jun 23, 2018

    Dear Me That I’ve Never Met, I may look like you. I may speak like you. I may act like you. I may be you. However, I don’t know you. I don’t know what your beliefs are. I don’t know how many friends you have. I don’t know how you feel in this moment. I don’t know what memories you…

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    Dear Past Me: Live, Love, and Appreciate

    Apr 20, 2018

    Dear Nilanjana Rai, Hi, hope you are doing fine. I believe you are either A) eating at the cafeteria alone — which is not because you don’t have any friends, just for the sake of not getting hurt — or B) you might just be worrying about what all you did to others and what all happened to you in…

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    Dear Future Me: I’m Counting on You

    Mar 13, 2018

    Dear future me, I don’t know if you will ever read this or even be alive to read this, but I’m going to write it anyways because I have hope that maybe we’ll make it through. If you read this, I don’t want you to read it while crying after another sleepless night, wishing that you could finally disappear. We…

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