Dear me,
You ended 2016 pretty well, in a sense. You were pretty upset for the last few days due to the passing of Carrie Fisher and her beautiful mother Debbie Reynolds, but you still spent the second to last day of the year watching the new star wars move and freaking out in the theater about every little reference you could pick up. But let's discuss how 2016 really went. You had so many ups but God, so many downs... almost too many to count. You gained about a hundred new sisters through the sorority everyone convinced you to join. It took so much convincing, I had already promised myself to never join one, but boy am I glad I gave in. I don't like thinking much about the beginning of 2016, it was probably the worst part for me. But I met my current significant other and that was really what made my 2016 memorable. Now for 2017, my hopes are high but really they want to be low. My hopes were high for 2016 and we all saw how that turned out, so I don't want to get my hopes up for another 365 days of dread.
I'm writing this to get that reminder at the beginning of 2018. I want to completely look back and see how much I've changed and what accomplishments I actually met. I'll probably completely forget this article exists and that's kinda what I'm hoping for. It'll be a nice surprise when I get the Facebook notification to re-read my best wishes to myself in 2017.
So 2017 Leah, I'd like you to know that I'm rooting for you. I hope I get the scholarships I've been stressing over almost every night. I pray I maintain a 4.0 and can strive to be in the honors program at my university. I hope I find self love, and I start to appreciate what I see in my mirror. I want to love myself and stop pointing out flaws when I see myself. I'd like to think I can start pointing out nice features about myself. I want to start staying in more, but at the same time I want to start staying in less. I guess I'll just have to leave that up in the air and evaluate at the end of the year and see what decision I made; that is what this letter is for anyway. I hope I can continue the relationship I am in now into the entire year of 2017 and many years after that. The relationship that this boy has provided for me has been the best one yet; little downs but oh so many ups. I want it to work and I pray for this to work, this is one of my top wishes going into 2017.
Good luck overall. Learn to be more open minded than you already are. I hope I maintain my grades while still keeping a steady job and actively trying to be a part of the best sorority in the world. I hope everyone else takes note and sends themselves a message for the new year. I hope we all succeed.
Sincerely,
2016 me.
