Letter to my younger self

Hello! Hello! It's been really long, and a lot has happened in these in-between times. I will not spend my words discussing all the events in this post, but I will surely share a few lessons learned along the way. I wanted to do it in a format that I have missed over the years, writing letters. I watched a theater play about letters shared between two friends over the years, then I read a book about letters exchanged between a female American author and a male who worked at a bookstore in London. This was followed by 'letters' as a theme that was chosen for our monthly reading club. And the letter that I wrote as my read is published in this post. When I stumbled upon life lessons as an adult, I thought, what if I had known these lessons at a younger age? That idea sprouted and transformed into the letter to my younger self below. It was not easy to write in all those lessons with 'no spoilers' of the events that may follow. I didn't really want it to sound like...