thepsyklife Have you ever thought of writing a letter to your future self ? Does that sound strange to you ? Surprisingly, people do that quite often. Writing a letter to your future self is a fun activity to get into, which lets you notice and perform tasks so much. People have been doing this for a long time. You’d generally come across the term “time capsule.” This time capsule mainly refers to the letters or other times people preserve in a bag, box or case, then keeping it somewhere safe where no one finds it, to eventually dig it up in the future. Isn’t that fun ?
In this blog post, we’ll explore the art and benefits of writing a letter to your future self. We’ll delve into the reasons why this practice has endured through generations, uncover its therapeutic qualities, and discuss how it can serve as both a source of motivation and a tool for personal growth.
So, grab a pen and some paper (or your digital device), and join us on this journey of self-discovery and introspection. Let’s unlock the potential of this simple yet profound act of communication with the most important person in your life—your future self.
Are you ready to start crafting your own letter to the future? Let’s begin.
What is Going On ?
Are you still confused as to what’s happening here ? Let me help you. Writing a letter to your future self is about expressing yourself to be read by future persona. Still confused ? This example might help you. Suppose you are feeling overwhelmed, or simply have aspirations for your life ahead. You take a paper and write down everything you feel or would like to achieve in the future. You keep this letter in a safe place and after 5 years, you come across it, opening the letter. You read it and understand your young self with more transparency now. You may read about the desires of achieving certain goals. In that particular moment, you’d analyse how your 5 years went with or without achieving those goals. It’d help you see and understand yourself with more depth and appraise your transformation.
A letter of this sort is meant for you to look into the future, think of everything you’d like to convey yourself then. This “future” could be in any time from the moment of writing. Perhaps a year or a few from now. The focus here should be on expression. What we express is the letter. Some of the expression ideas could include:
- Describing how you’re feeling these days and what challenges you’ve been facing
- What are you expectations from your future self ? ( have the time-capsules opening specific goal )
- Your transformation goals or achievements you’re looking forward to
There are many such ideas you could write upon. It all depends on you.
How To Write a Time-Capsule Letter ?
Writing a time capsule letter is one way of creating memories. The fast-pacing world is hardly letting us hold onto something. We rarely go back in time through an evening tea or enjoy our pictures from back in the day. It all seems time consuming to people nowadays. But time-capsule letters sound fun to most people. They may take interest in writing one and looking forward to opening them later in the future. “But how do I write it ?”, you might ask.
To write a letter to your future self, let’s look into it in steps.
Step 1: Get your paper and pen or PC
Step 2: Find a quiet and less interrupting space
Step 3: Write down or type what you want to for your future self
Step 4: If you’ve written on PC, print it out. Now fold the paper and put it in an envelope.
Step 5: Write your name and date on which you are writing the letter on the envelope. And next, write your name and the date in future, when you’d want or intend to open the letter ( better to have the set date for after a year )
Following the above steps, once you’re done writing, find a suitable place to hide the letter so that no one can get their hands on it. Further, set a reminder on your digital calendar or mark on an actual one.
Back to opening the letter on the set date arrival and have fun!
Benefits Of Writing a Letter to Your Future Self
We understood what a letter to future self stands for and how to write it. But there still could be this question in the back of your mind, WHY ? Why should I write a letter to my future self ?
Writing a letter to your future self helps you in more ways than you think
- Insight
To write such a letter, you’d have to know and understand yourself properly. In order to do that, you’d start observing and analysing your acts and behaviours. Your words. You would realise about the current state of thoughts, emotions and growth. Be mindful of your desires and fears. This insight would help in your self reflection.
2. Challenging Yourself
lWhen you write to your future self, you try to pen down the achievements you’d want to make by the time you read the letter. Doing that, you put yourself up for a challenge. It gives you a drive to do better, and make your future self proud.
3. New you
This stage is for those who put in the effort after writing the letter. This is the sweet result we seek long back and worked hard for. Writing a letter to your future self helps you to constantly work on yourself, achieve goals. You change and transform into the person you want to be. You find a “new you”, you’re proud of.
4. Self-Compassion
Reading a letter from your past self can help you practice self-compassion. You may see how far you’ve come and appreciate your efforts, even if you haven’t achieved all your goals.
5. Connection to Your Past
As time goes on, it’s easy to forget who you once were and what mattered to you. These letters provide a connection to your past self and can remind you of your core values and beliefs.
These three are the core merits of a time-capsule letter. It is very important for a person to be able to self reflect and challenge themselves. This works as a great driving force to get the incentive of our requirement.
To conclude, writing a letter is a fun activity you can do privately or with your friends, and help yourself to do better and have the desired goal achievement. With no negative aspects to it, it is very much safe and sounds a great way of attaining the growth one wishes. There are different templates available over the Internet that people can use to let their creativity run wild with the letter.
By- Devonita
