Letter Writing Challenge
Greetings to our Wonderful Community! Hope you all are doing well and safe. If not, hope you feel better soon. Remember, it's okay to not be okay.
This post is to introduce you all to our new #LetterWritingChallenge
Let's get into how this will work.
✔️Who can Participate?
〰️ Anyone in the community who wants to take part in this challenge.
✔️What are the steps?
〰️ The steps to be followed One by One to Complete this Challenge are :
Step 1) Bring any notebook/ diary/ paper and pen/ pencil.
Step 2) Write a letter to your past self in 7cups, that is the self when you joined our community. You can write about how you were as a person, your life challenges when you joined this community.
Step 3) Write a letter to your present self in 7cups, that is the self which you are today. You can write about how you are today as a person, your life challenges at present, how you have evolved as a person from the past to today.
Step 4) Write a letter to your future self in 7cups, that is the self which you wish to see yourself tomorrow. You can write about what you want to be as a person tomorrow, what are the goals you want to reach, how you can convert your present challenges into future opportunities.
Step 5) After writing the letters, go to the comment section and post "I accept and completed the #LetterWritingChallenge"
Step 6) If you are comfortable sharing, please share your letters in the comments of this thread or discuss them in the chatrooms with peers (members and listeners)
We will have Sessions on Letter writing challenges few times this week in the chatrooms. There all of us who wrote letters can enter the queue and share one by one the letters they wrote earlier.
It will be interesting and fun as we will get to learn a lot from each other.
Looking forward to seeing you all participating in this challenge. Those who don't want to share letters in-room or unable to participate in the live sessions in the room can post their letters in this thread too. See you all soon. Take care.
Credits: Challenge proposed and drafted by @iampapaya
I accept and completed the #LetterWritingChallenge!
@ASilentObserver
I accept and completed the #LetterWritingChallenge :)
I accept the challenge
Dear past self, it’s going to get extremely hard at times but you need to push through or else you won’t meet the love of your life, if your attempt worked you’d of passed at thirteen. Please keep your head up there’s so much more to life than you know yet. Just go through the motions it’ll be alright.
I accept and completed the #LetterWritingChallenge
Dear past me,
I know you are scared but i promise it gets better. In the future, all your hurt will be memories. you wouldn't have forgotten them but it woundn't hurt as much. You will only get stronger and braver.
I hope you realise that nobody cares about your your mistakes. And even if they don't say they love you, they do. The world is kinder than we are lead to believe. if you still hold that kindness in your heart and dreams in your eyes, i promise everything is going to be okay.
The more you will talk, the more braver you will get. Help yourslef even if nobody else seems to do so. And last, always remeber, I LOVE YOU. i did then, i do now, and i will always do.
- sincerely your future self.
@bidragon7359
Dear Future,
Don't cry. I know you lost the war, but, at least you fought through it. I know you are heartbroken. Fighting the war made you lose your beloved hair, your way of life, and everything. I Know Future Rose, you won every battle but, you lost the war. Trust me, your present Rose will always consider you as a martyr.
Hey Future Rose, you are not dead at least, not everybody has to be a successful person. you survived your dad's abuse and your brother's threatening. You made it through this much. You are still alive with your parents' constant humiliation. you survived a terrible addiction towards human beings. You survived physical ailments. You survived, your friends' betrayals, you survived, your neighbors' misbehavior as well as ignorance. Think about that Rose. Don't cry. Don't. You are surviving. You survived your professor's humiliations, you survived partiality, you survived unfairness. You survived mental neglect from your father. You survived the manic episodes of your brother and father. You survived your cruel mother who has been threatening you from childhood who will throw you out of the house knowing very well, you cannot survive on your own. so, yes, you have did it.
@ASilentObserver
To my past self: I know you had a lot on your mind in a time where things were moving too fast for you. You were falling out with a close family member and slowly realising that they had been hurting you for a long time and now more than ever. You didn't feel at ease with yourself. Things were scary. Things that you liked to do was not fulfilling anymore.
To my present self: It's worse. It's so much worse than before. I can't look in mirrors anymore, I wash my face in the dark because my severe acne is back after all I've been through. I thought that I was finally going to feel happy for something that is going to happen in my life very soon, but this just ruins everything on such a deep emotional level for me, since I've had acne for 8 years and it has affected my self esteem greatly.
It feels so tragic as well because I was starting to overcome my social anxiety, and this is just going to set me back BIG TIME.
My relationship to the close family member is also in ruins, and being forced to live with them anyway is only hurting me more.
I'm not doing well. I'm so stressed even though I have things in my near future that I have fought hard for and that should make me happy. I'm scared that I will revert back into depression, something that I managed to get myself out of a year ago. It's so frustrating to hope that it will be over every time, and then it just turns to shit. And the cycle repeats. It crushes your spirit.
To my future self: I hope that you will slowly work to regain a sense of self in society. I hope that you will feel that you believe in yourself even when things don't go your way. I hope you can focuse on the future and not just get stuck in the moment as I (the present me writing this) am probably doing right now. Thinking "things are slowly getting better" and then getting your hopes crushed still means there WAS a point where things were better, right?
I hope with all my heart that you don't let your insecurities and the people in your life that try to hurt you keep you away from making friends and living your life to the fullest. I hope you don't feel any regret for not doing it sooner, because you did what you were capable of at the time. I hope you learn to love yourself one day.
sorry for the rant. I really needed it.
@quietNight6288
I accept and completed the #LetterWritingChallenge
@ASilentObserver interesting!
I accept and completed the #LetterWritingChallenge
To my past self,
You went through so much and came out with everything but confidence. The struggle was so real but you pulled through and became the person you are today. I'm proud of you for letting yourself open up to your friends and for realizing that you were worth loving just as much as any other person in this world. I love you for your strength and for helping shape the person that I am today.
To my current self,
I am really happy with who you are. I think that you've been pursuing your passions with all of your heart. You've given up so much of your time to do what you love and life has been hectic as a result. But it has made you the most happy and positive person ever. I am proud of every choice you've made and I would do them a thousand times over.
To my future self,
I can't wait to see what kind of a person you are. I've seen so many incredible things in the present me that I can't even begin to imagine what an insanely awesome person you are going to be. Hopefully you stay true to yourself and do what you like. Never let anyone take your happiness or make choices for you. Believe in yourself and I can't wait to meet you honestly :)
Hello my past self,
I know you feel lost in life and feel like you have the worst circumstances anyone can have. Let me tell you it is not true, and how fortunate you are to have a few friends, family, and a good education ahead. Yes, you are born with defects here and there, but those defects don't define you, it is something that marks you as special. Embrace what you are given and work to overcome any challenges.
I recommend you to talk to your friends more, they really want to know about you. I recommend you talk to your teachers more, or you won't have anyone to ask for letters of recommendation <<< really. I recommend you to devote your time to something you like, or you will not have any skill to call your own.
Even so, I believe you did a great job to bring me here, so I know you will be proud of yourself when you become me one day.
Sincerely,
Your future self
Dear Past Reader who also happens to be me,
I remember all those letters we wrote to ourself. The times we questioned if we had done those terrible things to our body. I remember all those violent poems we wrote where we divulged our deepest feelings about self hatred.
I remember all those questions about if I was still there and if I had gotten to the point of self-harm,,
Questions I wanted to know the answer too.
For one, We are still alive, We still have friends, Our sibling relationship has improved and we've gotten more into fandoms. We even have a sorta- writing job! We even kissed someone!
to be honest life could be better and this letter could easily be like the ones you used to write. It really suck cuase I thought you were better,
Sincearly, Writer
I accept and completed the #LetterWritingChallenge
To my under,
You are the person who always alter your self in goodness. I know, you were scared, you don't know anything as you were young.
I hope you embrace yourself and every ache from the flaws of your heart.
To my between,
You are growing and letting yourself believe that we can do this as we grow up. We understand our fulfillments, our commitments, and our inner heart.
As we realize things, we should manage the past and vent our new self to know more of us.
To the upcoming,
As you learn from all of it, pass it to everyone. Let you inspire them. In each hope, you'll see that this is the matter of success, helping and supporting with love.
Continue to do it and inspire more.
