Letter to Future Child

Dear future child,
I am your mother and I am writing you as a senior in high school. I am getting ready for a lot of hard decisions, like what to do with the rest of my life and where to go for college. I still am undecided and this is my second semester, I have a fall back plan for community college in case a university falls through and I can’t decide. So just know that you don’t have to know what you want to do immediately. You always have options and time. I play softball now, but tried many sports over the years, there are so many things you can do. I hope you will turn out better than me because every parent wants better for their child. Mostly I want you to have as much fun as possible, I want to let you do things that I never got to do. I don’t want you to look at your childhood when you grow up and regret it. It’s hard to predict what exactly the world will be like when you come around. Right now there are so many bad things in the world, but don’t get me wrong there are a lot of good things too and the United States is making progress every year. We just elected the first African American president that is a big step as you will learn throughout school.

Love always,
Mother