Letters from the future: What do I say to myself?
Amanda age 60-something & Amanda age 20-something: Am I there yet? What am I doing and where am I going? These are not unreasonable questions to ask, as the earth keeps spinning and the days and months keep unfolding bringing all the tomorrows that we call the future. What will it look like? That’s a bigger question than I can answer. What will I be doing? While equally big, for me, it’s a question worth pondering and, as is my wont, writing about. Of course, putting words on the page as ideas and plans guarantees nothing; however, the words do give shape to — make concrete — the thoughts that float endlessly through my mind, landing nowhere and doing not necessarily very much for me. But the words on the page can be held in my hand and I can read them, review them anytime to remind me of what was important to me at one point in my past. And this re/viewing process allows me to assess today if those desires from the past still ring true for me — not a performance review, but a “d...