Say hello to my little friend

Ever wondered what it'd be like to receive a letter from yourself about your future in the present. My wife did that, it's quite interesting really. I mean, think about it. If you REALLY want to know how much your life has changed, what better way to do so than to think about when you were 10 years old and then write a letter to yourself telling you about your life. Let's see how I do:

Dear 10-year-old Shawn,

You will eventually lose all that weight... well for awhile. A long while even. In middle school you are going to be living on the other side of the country. It will be cold but it will be happy. Be ready for rough times when you first get there, but then it gets good. You'll move again, it won't be so good. Then you'll move again and be happier than you ever imagined. 

Stupidity will be second nature. As a result, you'll end up in the hospital with a 13-inch skull fracture. But it leads to having a girl in your life throughout high school. It won't be the best relationship but you'll later learn that everything happens for a reason. Without the bad, you can't have the good and when you go off to college, you'll easily recognize the good.

You'll marry your best friend. She'll be taller than you, smarter than you and all around you'll wonder how the hell you landed her. The good lasts a long time, but you'll again need a reality check. You'll be hit by the real world and not handle it all that well. But she will pull you through but you will know better than to forget all that she has given. 

It seems like it's a long time coming, but it'll be here before you know it. At 26, you'll feel no older than 18, but people will start referring to you as "sir" and Mr. Finer. You'll start getting annoyed at loud music and going to bed at a reasonable hour will sound nice.

Maybe I should leave the last part out...

So little Shawn, enjoy it while you can. You are going to have a wife, house, cats and debt before you know it. The best is yet to come!

Oh and don't worry about that place and the thing where that stuff happened.............. just kidding.