Future Letter to Yourself

In just four years you will be preparing to graduate from high school! 

Maybe that feels like a long way from now, but the time will fly by faster than you think. You will grow taller and stronger, your voice might change (guys), your brain will evolve, your sense of what is important will shift and you will find yourself becoming more serious, more aware of the future ahead of you.

So, as a way of keeping your grade 8 self alive, I want you to write and email a letter to your future self.

What should you write about? Anything really... Ask yourself questions...give yourself advice on love, education, goals... talk about what grade 8 has been like...

If you want a specific structure, here you go:

1. Paragraph 1 Current mood — How you’re feeling, what’s happening in your life right now? What are you fears and motivations? How has grade 8 been?
2. Paragraph 2 Questions for your future self — What are grappling with now? What are you curious to ask your future self? 
3. Paragraph 3 Aspirations for the next years — What do you hope to achieve?
4. Paragraph 4 Advice Giving - Stop, Start, Continue (What are 3–5 things you should stop doing, start doing, continue doing?)
5. Further Paragraphs More Advice Giving - General (What would you advise yourself to be like in the future? ex. Dear Future Self, I really hope you have a lot more confidence than you do know. Because I know you can do great things.)

The letter should be at least four well-developed paragraphs. But, feel free to make it as long as you like. Up to 20 marks for each unique detail and idea and question and thought. :) 

Hand in a paper copy to me, and upload it to your My Blueprint Portfolio but then you can also go ahead and email it to yourself! You have two choices: 

www.futureme.org                      -   you can control the exact date you will receive the email with this site, but you will have to respond to a confirmation email to make it work.

http://lettertomyfutureself.net/    -  this one only offers set times and you would have to pick either three years (end of grade 11) or five years (springtime of your first year out of high school). But it is easy and there is no confirmation email or anything.

Happy Writing!