I just found this in my inbox. I kind of remembered that I had written myself a letter, but I didn't remember what I had said. I think I had expected a lot more to be different by now. How depressing.
i once had to write myself a letter that was supposed to be mailed to me in ten years and it was weird when i got it cause it was around the time i had first met forrest andrew doug and clifton and they were mentioned as cool dudes that i should be friends with. yours however is much more poignant.
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men—go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers of families—re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
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i once had to write myself a letter that was supposed to be mailed to me in ten years and it was weird when i got it cause it was around the time i had first met forrest andrew doug and clifton and they were mentioned as cool dudes that i should be friends with. yours however is much more poignant.
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