My Time Capsule

Over the weekend, my sister dropped by to pick up her dogs. We have been dogsitting every weekend this month! Not to mention WE just got our puppy on Saturday, so it's been a crazy weekend/week with so many new things happening.

But my sister said to me "I have something for you." So i'm thinking - okay, cool. She walks to her car and brings this plain manilla envelope in to me. And i said - what is it? She told me she had no clue and that it was left on her front door at her house. It hadn't been mailed - just dropped off. No note.

So i look inside and I see this folder that has been taped shut on all sides. And it has my friend from highschool's name printed on the tape to show that it hasn't been opened. And my name on the other side. On the tab of the file folder it reads: "Andreas Time Capsule"



Memories start flooding back to me. A project that one of my classes did in highschool at the end of sophomore year was a time capsule. We were supposed to open them together at our 10 year reunion.

I didn't go to our 10 year reunion.

Later in the day when i had some time to myself, i went through the folder. I found a lot of things - but what really overwhelmed me was a letter we wrote to ourselves. I wrote this on Saturday, May 17, 1997 to myself:

Dear Dre,
I didn't think this would be such a hard project to do. But i'm sitting here in the basement almost crying. I'm so scared to grow up. I mean, I'm just not ready for the world yet. Are you still scared? What's it like to fall in love, what's it like to hear someone call you mommy? Right now, school just seems to drain me. Four more days till I'm out of sophomore year. I'm scared to get older. I hope its not so bad.

*Then there is another paragraph about who my current crushes are and i'm just going to leave that out* ;) *

One thing. I hope that now that you (we're) older we/you/i still have lots of pals. Remember not to keep everything to yourself...let it out. Don't forget about poetry and writing stuff either. This year i compiled my poetry book, Mirror, Mirror. Hope you/i/we still remember. Remember to play the piano a lot too! I love the moonlight sonata and endless love by Lionel Richie.

Also...where's Eti (the turtle/sand creature) and Toby...or what about brownie, my bear? You still have all that stuff? I hope so.

This has also been my year of caps lock. Everything i write practically is in all caps (this letter is handwritte BTW so it's all written in capital letters).

Do you still love mexican food? Is Guadalajara still open in Danville? If so, go and get taco salad (beef) no guacamola w/ diet to drink. It's the best. And at the Outback Steakhouse I always get the alice springs chicken. And drop by the old church, k? Go and see the youth room and what's going on up there. Is there still a band? Where's Jamie Ward these days? Is jesse pope, josh/jeremy hughes or Jk Kurtz famous yet? If so, I saw them get started!! They were all my good pals. Well anyway...hope things are going extremely well for us now!! Remember to pray tonight! And to tell your friends and family you love them.

Love you,
Me.

Being 15 is so crazy. Reading a letter to yourself that you wrote at 15 - even crazier.