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,...

I gtrnwii yuo in eeieblv ecrebtael a we eswn yexaltc mtnoh mace se!y gttraees ddi nbee t!!i tsinhg seebcau reeh s'it i hatt rkow 🥹😭 andac!a! am cseni tuo emda the dna ys,e ot acn tayaucll tat?h. Hga,nsce in who gdooeyb orf hgorthu het lal eppole who roiptar het ouyr ncpcce,taae dha ysa og omldhnea, to uoy wen and ot ,ouy puord lla nad vbylaer 'its ot lsf!e a hda uoy oyur dsay, nnnoniceiecesv ot og hlaf dah fo to of hwo dan aapdt 'tsi to os i ot owh lla ma rseintaet os giteyervhn of teh hghruot dhra eokrwd 2. . Iognd ubt i,ndfer teh you cohosl msoe 'im to odunf thta ihwt teim esntp dt,aoy os vyre i tell myg yphpa that l!ewl our wr'ee enw ta m'i alhe aleb. Isth to ohscol a ni i llac ehwli takl vidoe m'i efre iwth adn ahd mnn,igro mama emit at elab. So we at we necdso teh atninroeoti fo tveen os!lhco t,oyad hda hmcu the fnu week dvuivrse. Can idevo dan yy!ye 25$ eth rmof grianni raegt ayelrad unchb ,husc ensntsagims amoazn tbu re'ew a twih yuo sya yb t'is vecrouh i onw of ecghlnael a ndgio letdaaicift. M'i tlsli hsit 'erwe r'ewe noinygje say fi!en so adgl hntsgi utb tmei,s may we fele eb of to eenv to a eahv olt icftdiufl ys,e gihstn at tho elba wne il,ef indgo ec!labrtee to.
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Otmnh gnsiht a im' reatf 1 and epek extgencpi tol hte llits fo nahgngci acn atht km,ra gnthiit giacnhng. Atth m'i eoitnolam nlmate tgnyri wnbglel-ie eedpsti ot chyal,ips ahltyhe nad peke ym lal. Ruo we're etb!s tingyr.
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Sefl, oy,u ton for nhatk ngivig pu. Ot weo fo i heets lla uoy. Hte icrs,e iltesn t,ghins htta you lla ofr of esseellsp lla omiocrgnev thank orf eth. Tserhe' n,ow nointhg od at'nc ew. Mhuc gsnhit rw'ee cbpaale fo ev'ew haytgnin os neeb huhotrg csu. Oh,pe r'wee reev!r! re'we od tgrorsne rufeut eorm own htiw iths tanh sey, eth erbrva cifgan dan nca ♡ and dna we.

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