I found this wonderful site, promptly bookmarked it then forgot about it — for a year or two at least. I recently noticed it in my bookmarks and investigated it again.
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It is called Future Me and is a way to write a letter to yourself IN THE FUTURE. How cool is that???
For those of us who keep Journals, or write to process, or write letters or just love to write, this is such a great idea! I’ve already written 5 letters!
One thing I love about this site is that once you write your letter, it is in lockdown mode until it is sent, so there is no opportunity to “change your mind”, it’s being sent!
I love the idea of writing today to myself as if it were months, or years, in the future. What would I say to myself based on what I know today? What lessons or insights would I share? What encouragement would I give? Anything is possible!
Another interesting feature of the site is that when you set up your email to be sent, you can pick the date, and also you can choose if the email will be private or public yet anonymous.
There is a whole section of Public Letters that you can read. I’ve been impressed with most of them, how kind to themselves people are, how supportive, and how funny! It provides an interesting glimpse into other’s lives and you will discover they are not that different from you.
One way people are using this is to send letters to others in the future. This could be one way to write a tender note to someone in the moment and have it delivered on their Birthday for example.
Did I mention it is free? You can also donate $3 per year. I look forward to writing more letters to myself (and maybe others) and also reading them! Brilliant, FutureMe, just Brilliant!
Do you think this is something you would like to try?
Ok, I am going to try this, what a great idea! It’s weird I like to write in fact- don’t think I’m weird but I text myself if I have something I don’t want to forget or yesterday I texted my Dad by texting myself…..just to get it out there…..WEIRD?!?!? Do you think he actually heard me up there in heaven?!?!?
Oh, congrats for being the first to post today!
I do the same thing so I don’t forget (email, not text) and that is Tender that you text your dad – why not? He’s always listening and there.
What an awesome idea! There’s so much talk of writing to one’s past self. Why not this, too? Thank you so much for sharing! Definitely will do it.
Exactly! I have done a lot of processing and revisiting the past – why not create write to create the story of my (our) Future??
I love this idea – I clicked the link and will bookmark it for later today! Cool resource, Jyll – and that is why I love coming back to your site all the time! You share great things!
Thanks!
Ahhh that is sweet of you to say. I can’t get enough of FutureMe!! Let me know how you like it!
How AWESOME is that!! Definitely going to start writing letters for the future! Bookmarked the site! Congrats for being the first one today!
Wow, what a great idea. This is the first I heard if this site and I’ll be sharing it. Thanks for an interesting post.