Dear Self
I’ve just finished writing a letter to myself, to be opened next January 1st. It’s a ritual I’ve been doing every New Year since 1977. That’s 40 years of me writing to myself, the self I imagine will be interested in reading what the current self — which immediately becomes another past self — is interested in saying. Which is kind of touching, in a way, on the part of the past self, to want to be heard from in the future. And kind of sweet, too, on the part of the current self, to be open and listening.
Isn’t that always what’s needed?
May we all listen — to ourselves and to each other — with care and attention. And may we all be heard.
Wouldn’t that be a Happy New Year!