Future Me

Being bored online does have a few advantages. One of them is to discover interesting sites that you never heard of before, but is exactly what you were looking for some time in your life. I discovered once as such: FutureMe.


Back when I was Form 1 at the Malay College, all of us were to write a letter for our future self that will be kept by the then Prep School prefects only to be given back to us when we were in Form 5. Back then, it was quite a remarkable idea to write a letter to your future self and I did wrote quite hell of a lot in that letter, about my hopes of what I'll acheive in 5 years time. Nevertheless, there's always Murphy's Law. The particular prefect that was supposed to keep the letters went oversea and while he was there, his family did a spring cleaning of his room and found a box of letters and accidentally thought it was junk and threw it away.. Tisk..

Enter FutureMe. This site works around the same fundamentals of the future letter idea but instead of analog, written letters, they do it using emails. Here's according to the website:

two fellas started this here site so that you could write yourself a letter to be delivered at a later date. we've all had to do them in high school and college. it's sorta cool to receive a letter from yourself about where you thought you'd be a year (two years? more?) later. FutureMe.org is based on the principle that memories are less accurate than emails. we strive for accuracy.

How cool is that? Not only could you write something for yourself to receive in the future, you could also email it to anyone you like. On top of that, we don't need to worry about the wear and tear of letters, or even the kind of mishap I mentioned earlier.. and you can basically set it to a maximum date of 30 years from now! Well, as long as you still use that email, the website is still running by then, there will still be an Internet and of course, no Nuclear War outbreak that'll wipe out entire humanity happening in that time frame.

Already have something in mind? Just click on the picture above to be transported to FutureMe.

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