To Michelle1
I am writing you this letter from 15 years in the future. I know that you have just lived through the most painful experience of your young life. Loosing a father is never easy, and I know for you it will be an almost impossible experience to survive. I need you to know that everything will be ok even though there is still alot of pain ahead of you. Things you never could of imagined or foreseen, just know that everything that happens to you will make you a better person. I will not give you too much information, because I know you and you will try to change your fate. 2
Thinking about it now, I know that there is not one thing I would change to make our/my life better. One simple change could forever alter the person you become. All though you will not be perfect by any measure, you will be strong, honest and compassionate. All the things I believe to be important in this world. 3
So all that is left to say is good luck and remember to always land on your feet. One piece of advice I would like to impart is, don’t take the little things for granted. They will become the things you regret most in your life. 4
Be strong and have fun5
Much Luv6
Michelle 7
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I enjoyed this piece of writing. Simple and to-the-point. What I really liked is your 'honesty', if you know what I mean ... no overdescribing or waxing-lyrical, just heart-felt words. A few suggestion below.
1st paragraph - Not loosing, but losing. rather, okay and not ok; I always get confuse myself, but is it 'could of' or should it be 'could have'?
2nd paragraph - 1st sentence; I would write like this; Thinking about it now, I know that there is not one thing I would change to make our lives better as this could forever alter the person you become. Next sentence, not 'All though' it should be 'although'.
Well done!
Regards
Bernice
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This makes me feel old..
...because I am. I've watched situations like this develop (I used to be a psychiatric nurse) and I've had conversations just like this.
To me it felt realistic; I suspect anyone who has faced a scenario like this, whether as a counsellor, the one needing counsel, or just an observer, would wish it were this simple. The principles are sound, it's putting them into practice that tests the mettle. It's when the person who's lost a parent feels unable to struggle any more that the ability to hold them up without appearing to comes into play.
It would be wonderful to jump ahead fifteen years and bring back a snapshot, but then, hindsight is 20/20 vision, and it only works properly in the future.
It was a reasonably well written piece, but have a look for typos, "loosing" instead of losing is one I picked up, but I think there are more. -
This is the most self moivating thing i have ever read... i love it... it must have been a well... hmm... i dont know what the word is... but maybe... gratifying will work... so it must have been a very gratifying piece to write... now all you have to do is follow the things you wrote in there... and always remember that poetry will always be there for you!
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That's a great write & what a fab idea writing to yourself from the future I hope your future self is right & everything works out just fine...
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Thank you! And thanks for the advise.
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Hey, good thoughts. It is scary to think of changing things isn't it, even those things that are/were not very pleasant because it would forever alter who and what we are. And, since life builds on all of the things that happen, no way to "selectively" edit specific things. Nice job, Michelle.
Paul
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