A letter from April 11th, 2020

Dear Thomas? Obviously I hope you are doing really well. As you know, as of about a month before I'm writing this letter I spent time deciding what the fuck I was going to actually do with my life and after much deliberation, decided that maths is the way - the one I want to stick with. If you've forgotten, before now all I wanted to do was drums and due to a shift in interest and the practicalities of all of my progress I decided that maths was not only much more practical, but probably more stimulating and is likely to be more suited to my skills. This is a choice I did not take lightly and if you hate me for making it (me in a years time) I'm not sorry because after all of this thinking I truly think you would've hated me more for taking the music path if not in a years time but in two or three years time. In the future, I can assume that you will be completing your A level courses and preparing mentally for the examinations - you may have already done your A level recital for music if you stuck with that. I have no idea what I'm going to do in that regard, all I know as of right now is that an audition probably won’t happen. If that is the case, I hope you smashed the recital. I can imagine that you've put in a lot of work to follow up on some promising offers from unis, and I hope that you haven't placed too much pressure upon the exams drawing closer. At the moment back here in 2020 the world, for many people, looks rather bleak with corona-virus driving everyone indoors. People think that this is going to last until November time, I have my hopes that we will be back to school by August and I can get the predicted grades I deserve. I also hope that I can see Julie again soon. We have been separated for a while because of the lock down apart from a few secret "exercises." I hope that the lock down ends soon and I can see her again. On that topic: I really hope I am still with her - reading from a year in the future because right now I believe I love her very much and she is a very special girl that you should hold on to. And just know if you aren't still with her, past Tom will be very angry. I expect you to be engaged with her - let’s say.... in a couple months? Sounds reasonable to me... Right now I'm really missing my friends and I'm excited to see everyone again once this is all over. I hope you're not in beef especially this time of year because that is just shit and I hate it. I shaved my head about a week ago and I think I'm going to grow it back out but I think Julie is starting to warm up to it so who knows? All I want is for you to be happy and I hope you've organised this difficult university situation between the two of you. I bet I'm still really healthy in a year from now and if you don't have a 6 pack still, get on that shit u lazy ass bitch. (Sorry if you actually still do have one I just want to make sure I'm covering all bases.) You will probably be able to drive in a year from now and you will definitely be able to buy alcohol. Have you bought a saxophone yet? Are you going to perform in Ghent in a few months time on drums? I hope the answer to both of those is yes but I can understand if they are both no... I really hope you like this message and make sure you thank future Matt for giving you the idea of actually doing this. Writing this letter was really just procrastination from revising physics but I am actually going to do a bit of that now, shortly before I hop on the bike and go for another bike ride that I've been looking forward to recently Love from, Thomas xoxoxoxox