{"id":66569,"date":"2025-05-01T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/66569\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T20:24:09","slug":"she-does-it-i-do-it-dont-judge-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/66569\/","title":{"rendered":"She does it. I do it. Don\u2019t judge us."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Meghan Markle recently \u201crevealed<\/a>\u201d that almost every night before bed, she sends her young kids an email. They go to an address that the kids will have access to when they\u2019re older, and will be full of little memories of growing up. \u201cI thought it was such a great time capsule to create for them,\u201d she told a podcast host<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s Meghan Markle, this got a strong reaction. Namely: That\u2019s so many emails<\/a>. But it\u2019s not a totally bad idea! And you don\u2019t have to be a parent to do it. For years now, every spring, I get an email\u2014OK, yes, just one\u2014from my past self.<\/p>\n

I started sending these emails my junior year of high school. A classmate told me about the site \u201cFuture Me<\/a>,\u201d where you could write a letter and have it delivered to your inbox at any point in the future. I had journaled for years, and often reread my old entries to reflect. But I was intrigued by the time capsule\u2013esque idea of writing something that would only come back to me at a later time.<\/p>\n

That year, at 17, my entry was primarily a rant against my friends at the time, and my desire to be able to just graduate already. A lot of teenage angst. But I also wrote about what I was proud of that year, and my hopes for 2018 Hannah\u2014and gave my future self some wise words I hoped she\u2019d remember as she headed off to college that coming fall. \u201cCollege will be a great experience for you to get out of your comfort zone, take advantage of whatever resources are offered, and meet new people,\u201d I wrote.\u00a0Reading it the following year was extremely gratifying. I loved seeing how far I had come\u2014and how many of the grievances I had aired in the original letter had simply been resolved.<\/p>\n

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\n Nadira Goffe
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    It\u2019s now become an annual ritual. Each time I get an email from past Hannah, I take a few days to think about my biggest takeaways from the prior year and what I want to remind my future self of. It\u2019s incredibly cathartic when I send it into the void, letting the FutureMe gods do the rest. You could pick whatever timing, but I like the fact that this time of year is out of step with the typical \u201creflection\u201d cycle of the new year. The letter usually comes at the end of May or the beginning of June, so just about halfway through the year. And because of this, it aligns well with certain milestones, most notably graduations from high school and college.<\/p>\n

    Sure, you could just stuff a letter in a drawer and come back to it at a later time. I personally didn\u2019t trust myself to remember it or not open it. And as Meghan Markle put it<\/a>, when it comes to physical nostalgia like scrapbooks, \u201cwe\u2019re past that generation now.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The FutureMe platform is free (though they take donations to keep it running), and lets you send at any point in the future, so you could go the full Markle and send your much older self a ton of notes. But I\u2019ve found that annually is a nice cadence. And even though I\u2019ve been doing it for years, I don\u2019t fully remember when the email is coming, so it\u2019s a nice surprise. I should be getting my next one soon, though. Here\u2019s hoping 2024 me has some wisdom for the year ahead.<\/p>\n

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