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Prompt #29 - letter to past self
Prompt #29

Write a letter to yourself at some point in the past.

Dear Ray,

Oh this is stupid. Write a letter to myself at some point in the past, to tell myself what? To tell me my lousy father doesn’t get nay lousier? To tell me on my wedding day me and Angie are going to get divorced? Tell myself about Zuko getting beaten up twenty years after he beat up Marco? What would be the point?

I mean things get screwed up in the past; I just want to be able to move on. I don’t want to have go back and think about what I’d say to myself. What do you say to a ten year old boy crying in his room because his father’s come home drunk again? What do you say to a fifteen year old whose locked himself in his room because he’s nearly wet his pants watching his friend get beaten up? What do you say to s guy who thinks his marriage is going to last forever?

You can’t. You just have to look back on it and know you came through it.

Maybe I should warn myself about Benny. Yeah

Look, Ray, in a few minutes time this Mountie is going to turn up at your desk as about the dead Mountie case. You’re going to end up insulting him because the dead Mountie is his father but apologise, think about it. This guy is going to be the best thing to ever happen to you. Sure you’re going to ruin suits and end up dropping everything when he wants you to but it’s going to be worth it. \this guy is going to be your best friend, he’s going to be maybe even more than that.

Yeah I know a Mountie, a Canadian but he’s going to help you be a better person. He’s going to get back that feeling that you can make a difference and you’re going to make a different with him. Just be his friend, be there for him, he’s going to need you, be there for him.

Remember that, Ray.

A bit of advice from…

Ray.