I doubt if she was listening, but yesterday I told Demi Moore that there’s nothing wrong with her. She may benefit from writing a letter to her future self, just to make sure she doesn’t forget how blessed she is right now. She has a successful acting career, pots of money, several gorgeous homes, three delightful daughters, a good relationship with the father of her children, and a host of supportive friends.
Demi might like to know there’s a website (www.futureme.org) on which you can write a letter to your future self – way into the future, if you wish. You can keep it to yourself, or you can make it public (but anonymous).
Who knows if email will exist in this form in 2022, but it’s a good way of reminding yourself about what’s important in life.
What would your letter say? I’ve sent mine 10 years into the future, to my 65th birthday. This is how it goes:
Dear Future Me
I know it’s easy for me to say it now, but don’t spend too much time worrying about getting older. Unless the government woke up and realised how stupid it is to retire people when they’re still full of beans, you’re about to become an Old Age Pensioner. But everyone knows that life begins at 65!
Remember what Jane Fonda said in the inspiring TED talk you watched in January 2012 about life’s third act. As you age, the spirit grows, and you become more contented, more at ease with yourself and your past, more accepting of yourself and others, more authentic and more spiritual.
Remember what a role model your mother is – laughing, joking, joining the University of the Third Age at 84, always curious about the world, always wanting to learn more. Follow her example.
I hope you will be as happy at 65 as you were at 55. You have a wonderful, caring, sensitive, sexy husband who thinks you are beautiful. You have a great family. You have a small number of loyal friends, as well as many stimulating acquaintances and colleagues.
You have just qualified as a coach and are about to do the work of your life. I hope you will be able to look back to this day and appreciate what you have achieved since then. I hope you will be showing up on a daily basis, sharing your wisdom and knowledge, and giving something back to the world.
I hope you will have touched many lives and acted as a beacon of light for those in the darkness. I hope you feel you have contributed, that you still have meaning and purpose in your life.
I hope you are healthy. I hope you feel there is still so much to do, and that you have plenty of time to do it.
Please know that you are loved, you have always been loved, that you will always be loved.
And yes, even though you didn’t have children, you left a legacy. You really made a difference.
With much love and respect,
Beverley
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