MR Writer’s Club Prompt: I’m a Time Capsule in a Bottle, Gotta Write Me the Right Way

They say that hindsight is either 20/20 or super funny. That we’d all be rich if we had a nickel for every event that felt all-encompassing and dramatic then later turned out to be no big deal.

But what about future-sight?

Do we know things now that could help us in the future that we might unwittingly disregard once the future turns into present? Did that question just explode your mind? It’s true that what we go through shapes who we become — and what a welcome, comforting thought it is to know that what doesn’t kill us does, in fact, make us stronger. But I think it’s also important to remind our future selves of who we are now. What we like and don’t like and what makes us happy as well as sad.

It probably keeps us grounded, in some way.

The thing is that our memory is crap. It’s too easy to forget the person we were once the present catches up to the future. So, let’s make a reminder. A written time capsule that we can all print out and stuff into glass bottles and send off into the ocean (if the ocean nearest to your drop-pin isn’t frozen).

Consider us your time capsule keepers, and send a letter to your future self to write@manrepeller.com. We’ll all probably be super busy in 2025 (proposed date of opening), in which case, keep it around 500 words.The deadline is Thursday, February 26th at 12 PM.

And attention future J. Lomelia — I’m still Jenny from the Block.

For past MR Writer’s Club prompts and winners, click here.