My dear children,
This is probably weird for you, huh? The fact that you're reading a letter your mother wrote to you when she was 19 is something you probably never thought would even come around. Well, now here you are. I wonder if you're going to be reading this through a computer screen. Has technology come along way since my college days? Maybe it has, maybe it hasn't, but that's another conversation for another time.
There are a lot of things I have wondered about before you came around. Who will I end up marrying? How many children will I have? What will their hobbies be? Well, if you truly are your mother's children, you will have played volleyball at some point in your life. Maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't. Whatever you choose to do is okay with me, just please make sure that however you choose to spend your free time does not endanger you in any way. You don't want to give your mother a heart attack at a young age, now do you?
I hope that school is going smoothly for you. By the time you read this, you will probably have gone through the first few years of your elementary school career, or you might be in high school right now. How do you like your teachers? Do you have a lot of homework? What's your favorite subject? If you're anything like me, you might hate math. I did okay in math, but as I got older, it became more a foreign language to me.If you ever take calculus in either high school or college, just know that I will not be able to remember anything I learned from the one year of calculus I took. Maybe your father can help you with that.
In school, there may be other kids who are not very nice to you. They might be mean to you, take your things, your lunch money, maybe even push you to the ground. If this is happening to you right now, just know that those bullies are only making fun of you in order to make themselves for secure about themselves, and while you not want to because you're scared, stand up for yourself. I am not saying hit them back but don't be afraid to defend yourself. Your father and I will never get mad at you for defending yourself, and I will do everything in my power to make sure you aren't punished for that.
Speaking of your father, he's a great man, right? As I'm writing this right now, I have no idea who I decided to get hitched to in the future, but I'm assuming that I made the right choice. It took a lot of work to get to him, you know? I've had my fair share of heartbreak and failed romances when I was young. I know you're still young and have a lot of things to figure out, but I want you to know that sooner or later, you will have your heart broken. For a while, it will hurt. The only thing you will want to do is to curl up into a ball and eat ice cream out of the container. But, here's the trick to getting over it, just know that this feeling you're feeling won't last forever. You will find happiness in something else, whether it be another person or something else you love. You will find something that gets rid of the pain.
I will conclude this letter with this. If at any point in your life you feel confused about anything at all, don't feel like you can't talk to me about it. If you ever feel confused about who you like, how you feel about sex or anything like that. You can come talk to your father or I about it, and I promise you I will love you no matter what. I never want you to feel like you have to hide you are from us. You are my children, my dear children. I will never hate you for being who you are.
Love always,
Your future mother
