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[YEAR]

[LETTER]

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2018

Listen, I know you had it rough lately - bullying, first failed college grade, and being friend-zoned. I also know you feel like you had nothing special going for you, you feel like you have nothing to be proud of, and now you accidentally joined a club that is well known to have a lot of smart people that represent the university in competitions. Congratulations, you got in naturally compared to the others who had a night of prep time. I know that you were denying that feeling at first but soon I know you will accept it and take pride in what you entered.

All I can say is don't centre your entire college life on that club. Yes, it had benefits such as being able to easily ace exams in less than 30 minutes and improving your mindset and the way you view conflicts, hell I'm probably sure you would've committed suicide if you didn't get in by accident. You will experience a very certain failure soon on the date of September 21 when you're the only one in the club who didn't receive a medal from the competition, that feeling still hurts now, however, once I got to experience life more today, that pain of that memory got smaller - We outgrew what happened to that date. About that failure, I wish I could tell you to not take it too hard since it started the degradation of our hair health, we became obsessed with achieving awards but that obsession became my driving force now, it made my ambitions and goals clear. Anyways, don't focus all your time in that club, learn to enjoy college, learn to have fun, take risks, and don't let your emotions get to you. Even now I'm still thinking if we didn't let our emotions control us, we could've banged our friend who was our college's voluptuous fantasy on her birthday and probably even ours. Right now, I'm trying to not let my emotions steer me since uncontrolled emotions deny us great rewards in life.

Those medals, trophies, and certificates that we've earned throughout our college years where we deny any possibility of having fun in exchange for grinding our brains from 3 am to 11 pm just to beat other universities, well those physical awards are sitting comfortably with clouds of dust, I can't even remember how many awards we garnered. However, the lesson I got today after seeing our collection is that the world is not all about medals and awards and that money is more important than those things nowadays. Still, even if it made me realize what matters, I regret focusing most of my time on that club. All I can say is get wasted, get drunk, have fun more, and meet new people.

Regards,

2023 version of you.

P.S. For the last time, don't be too hard on yourself every time you fail. You're a person, don't be the university's academic weapon.