A letter from Aug 06, 2023

Time Travelled — about 1 month

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, I received a very heartbreaking news today. My application to study abroad was cancelled. It's so ****** up because I'm almost done preparing everything for my flight that's booked next week. I already have the Letter of Acceptance months ago and I also have my approved Student Visa with me. So I'm really shocked and confused right now as I didn't receive any email beforehand, I just found out about it when I logged in to my school web account today then *boom* it says that my application was cancelled. There's no further explanation to that. I don't even know how it happened. I have already submitted and got my documents approved so I was quite expecting that I just have to wait and fly over there for my dreams, but now everything was suddenly shattered to pieces. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say, or how to tell my auntie that she's been paying full support for all my expenses, only for it to go nothing. We've already invested too much money on this that I don't have any idea how to pay it back on my own. And I don't know how to deal not only with my own disappointment.. how am I going to break this news to everyone 😭😭 I have to calm down. Okay, I gotta do something. For now, I've already sent an email to the school recruitment advisor about my situation. But I still have to wait for like two days before their office hours because it's weekend today. The wait is ******* me already. 😭😭 Future self, what should I do? A lot of things are running in my mind right now, and none of them are nice things. Just a lot of what if's.. What if this doesn't work out? This is going to be my biggest heartbreak. Future self, am I going to let you live your life in regret? I don't want you to live with regrets of how you didn't get to live the life I've been dreaming of for you. What if everything goes wrong just when I thought things are finally getting better? What if we're not meant for that great successful life.. that we don't actually deserve it in the first place and I'm such a fool to even think that I'm finally having that? I wanted to leave this place so bad to pursue a better life somewhere on the other side of the globe, I wanted to change my life.. was I too desperate? How cruel can the universe be to try and give me something, only for it to be taken away from me without even touching my fingertips.. What if things don't work out? What if this just ends up to me being a failure? I had so many plans, so many dreams.. too many plans and dreams that it might have probably jinxed it. I don't know how to face this loss. I don't have the time to fail. I have no more chances left to lose. I can't bear to go through this heartbreak, this will totally destroy me. I don't know what to do. I feel so scared and anxious.. the voices in my head are starting to get so loud again and the only way I know to silence them even a little bit was to write down my thoughts. That's why I'm writing this to you. What does the future hold for us, self? I hope things will work out. I can't think of any other way to live my future without this. It's this chance or nothing at all.. I do really hope that you'd be able to write an update about this. Please write a nice one, future self. I'll be waiting, but please don't make me wait for too long.

Epilogue

6 days later

Reading this really reminded me of how scared and anxious I was upon discovering the news about my acceptance cancellation.. and I'm here to give you the warmest hug, self,...

!eys a wesn nac we ddi nad deam in that i hnmot acatluyl ecrbaetel cesin ylxctea sye, ceam rkwo intgsh ?that uto trgiwni !it! hte am vbieeel easttreg rehe uacesbe i uoy eebn its' 🥹😭 !!dacnaa ot. A to uoy se!lf ohw yrvalbe ot tehvnrgyie oehl,ndam ot owh fo of ruhhtgo lla fo and yu,o e,ptnaaeccc ahd and dha ot hwo hte royu dna all fro gdbyooe ot s'ti 2 flah sterainet ot go ma a,dys orrtapi asy atpda uyor woh 'tis nicesoeinvecnn wne all okedwr os uoy het hte to hda rdoup cenhags, so grhouht i ahrd ni og epople. . At t,aoyd lw!le eth so yppha rou im' ohsloc etll ufdno leba tub hlea ttha ewn re'we mgy to setpn eoms thta ouy id,enfr nigod i itme iwht vrye mi'. Refe mogin,rn ni a dna i iwth at laeb klat mi' ovide ahd aamm hsti chosol ot lalc hleiw ietm. Hmuc sdvrvuie nuf of had aoiiotnetrn eht vtene at we we wkee eth t,oady osecnd so sh!oclo. Eecglalnh oedvi yy!ye ouvehrc utb ysa raealdy ,cuhs moaanz ubhnc inngria $25 wthi the fo yb 'its a can ogdni dictiatlefa a traeg dna yuo imenngsssta i nwo mrfo e'ewr. Re'we to isth of nei!f asy neev be lto ucdflitif ubt gionynej dalg ,sey 'ewer may cteelbare! stiem, a ta ot f,eli to mi' so ishtng hto dnoig leab aveh we leef iltsl wne tnhigs.
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Anc k,mra ghniitt lot stlil ttah ekep a erfta mi' icnnghga gnxecietp eth stingh dan ahcggnni of 1 omhnt. Ahtt ehhlyta ntelma epek ym ot ewlbi-egnl yrntgi yshl,pcia i'm lmioaonte lla tpsdeie adn. Tb!se ewe'r nyitrg our.
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Sl,ef vgigin ,ouy up rof ton haknt. Of i tseeh weo lla uyo to. Hi,ntgs elepelsss all the lla etsiln ergcmioovn hkatn thta for of rof teh sic,er uoy. Wn,o n'tac onnghti od hrte'es ew. 'erew pbelcaa gnthis e'ewv of so oghtruh suc eenb cumh tnihangy. Nad nca ,yes tnorresg ,ohep we afngic hant urutfe rev!e!r orem dna do dna onw teh rraevb ithw 'were hsti ♡ ewer'.

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