Dear senior self:
Hello there! Look it’s you, but from the past! Look at how far you’ve gotten man, it’s incredible really. You’re about to enter… the world. This is the final step to finally just living and enjoying life. I’m sure you have a lot of doubts as to whether things will work out, if you can make it, if this is even worth continuing along with the state of the world as it is now (hell back in freshman year it wasn’t even that great anyway, it’s probably a shitstorm now). Well, I’m going to leave you with a bit of advice to help you get through it all.
I want you, to have hope. There’s no point wallowing around in despair over your future. If you think nothing you do is going to matter, that nothing you do will change the world, then it won’t. It’s as simple as that. Because you say it can’t happen, then it won’t happen, because you say it won’t. However, the opposite is also true. If you hope for a better future, both for yourself and for the world, then you can work towards it. Skulking around in despair will only make things worse for yourself. Only if you have hope in yourself and the world, can you even begin to fix the problems with you and the world. And personally, I’d rather have hope in even the smallest chance possible, rather than take no chance at all and just watch the world burn.
So that’s, really all I’ve got. I can’t imagine I’ve changed as a person much. There’s no reason for me to change now. I’m finally aware of the value people see in me, so I don’t see a reason to change now or in the future for them. I am me, and nothing can change that. You just keep being you Trenton. You show the world who the fuck Trenton Ross Taylor is. You shape your own future. You seize your own destiny. Remember these words Trenton, “Acknowledge the past, focus on the present, and look to the future”. The future belongs to you.