This is a letter to my old self during quarantine. I was not in the best mindset during at the beginning of quarantine and want to tell my old self the things I will learn or experience soon.

Dear Sam,

Hi! This is you but in the future and I am writing this to you because I notice you are not yourself. You act fine in the day, your smile is from ear to ear. Your laugh gets louder and louder as your family cracks jokes and pranks you throughout the day. But once you are alone or in silence you start to think and as time goes by you get deeper and deeper into your thoughts. Things you have never thought before are on the top of your mind making it hard to forget about them. Yes, right now it seems like a prison, not able to go anywhere. But soon you will learn/experience things that will forever change you for the better.

You are bored out of your mind right now but you will soon go on so many adventures with the rest of your family. Going to Lake Havasu every weekend for the whole summer where you will learn so much about mom and dads past. How they used to dress, and how they used to act. They will tell you countless stories of them not making the best decisions but having the time of there lives or how they learned a lesson that shaped them into who they are today. You will learn from there mistakes and learn from them making you a better person. You will also tell them stories of things you experienced at school or on your adventures that you never got around to telling them. You will become a version of yourself that you never thought you could every achieve.

Finally, you will learn that things you once took for granted will be gone and the things you once worried over were insignificant. You are the most important thing. You are the person you do everything for. You worry about yourself and the people that have been there for you through your ups and downs. You are the center of your earth and you are the thing that will get yourself through these dark times.

In conclusion, I know its hard right now and it seems like a life sentence in prison. But it will shortly get better. You will become the best version of yourself and will value the little things in life. You will start living like every day is your last. Your laughs and smiles will start to be genuine and your thoughts will stop drowning you when you go to rest.