Unless you already have grand kids that can read. Anyways, I was cleaning up my Google Drive and found a letter I wrote back in February to my future grand children.
To my future grandchildren,
Hello, this is minorcharacter, age 27 writing to you on this date February 1st, 2014. Today is a cold day and I feel there are many more to come, but I hope you find that this letter will warm you.
If you want to know about me let me share with you that as of this moment I am in the midst of developing my career as an IT professional and seeing the world. Hopefully by the time you read this I will have had my own business up and running and one of you plans to take charge of it one day. I do hope that the world of technology becomes a family tradition. Technology can change lives and the world; take charge of it and don’t be afraid of it.
Along with my ambitions I have many other things I am doing as well. Just today I met up with a group to do some finger painting. I am hoping this will help stimulate my creativity and that in itself will become useful in life. I have never considered myself to be a very intelligent man, but I do believe in thinking differently or trying a new approach. Innovation is the fruition of creativity, remember that well.
Technology is great, but remember to appreciate the simple things in life. There is nothing quite like enjoying a Pink Floyd tune in the middle of a quiet field while you’re high on marijuana. I do not know what music will be like in your times, but I implore you to explore the music that I listened to. It is not music that developed in my generation, but in the generation of my father. Also, while you’re out there in the great outdoors learn how to use a bow and carry a machete with you. Even if you suck at using them you will look pretty bad ass just carrying them around.
While you’re enjoying life, don’t forget to fall in love as well. It is the most wonderful feeling in the world. I have had my heart broken, and maybe I am still in love with the same woman that broke my heart, but at the very least I am happy. Perhaps that is all it takes to live a good life; just being happy. It is okay to be jealous, to have your insecurities, to want more, but just remember to be happy. There is no way of quantifying happiness, you are either happy or you are not so just choose to be happy.
If I should pass before you read this letter then I hope by then there are flying cars. There are many great things I expect from the future, and that is one of them. If I am too resilient to see what the world now has to offer please come show me. Show me how the world has changed, and hopefully it will have been for the better. Our generation leaves a great problem for you to fix, but I believe in you.
Lastly, I hope I have been a great grandfather to you all. My grandfather passed away when my father was young so I never even got to meet him. My other grandfather lived in California so I seldom saw him and never got to really ask him the questions I wanted to. I don’t have a real experience with a grandfather so I am ashamed to say that despite all my wisdom, I may or may not have, I don’t know how to be a grandfather to you all. That is why my single last wish is to become someone you can all be proud of.
-MC