Category: Dear reader from the future
-
Dear reader from the future, I’ve been reading a book about people in the 80s and 90s and thought about how different they live out their days from mine. And then it made me think further about how you might also be spending your days differently from mine, inspiring me to write about how I…
-
Dear reader from the future, I am writing this in my 30s, reminiscing about my young self, aged 10. Looking back, I remember how I’ve always been in my head, dreaming about what kind of adult I would become, and how my life would turn out. I had questions like: Will I never be able…
-
Dear reader from the future, I am writing this in yet another season of waiting in my life. Waiting—the kind I used to resist. But perhaps the difference this season is that the destination is clearer than it was a year or two years ago. I’d like to believe that I am now able to…
-
Dear reader from the future, I just want to tell you about what my typical week is like so that you (or I) can have something to look back on (and probably compare with) a decade from now. When my husband and I run some errands, we bring our cat along. Novo has been a…
-
Dear reader from the future, I just watched Tron: Ares last night. Two computer programs faced off—Ares and Athena—and their exchange struck a chord in me. “You’re out of time.” “And you’re out of lives.” The words hung and popped out from the screen, and I found myself thinking: what’s the difference? When we run…
-
Dear reader from the future, How do you celebrate birthdays? Is buying stuff for gifts still a thing? Maybe after listening to many episodes of The Minimalists and reading The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, I think about all the stuff I have accumulated over…
-
Dear reader from the future, Whenever provinces and cities get flooded in the Philippines, I always think about anthropogenic climate change. But there’s another problem that originates from human activity: greed. As the government poured out billions for adaptation efforts, bad actors found ways to steal what should have protected us from rising waters. But…