Dear Me: Then & Now is a place for letters that travel through time — to your future self, your younger self, or the person you are still becoming.
Created by Busra Fettahoglu, this project began with a simple feeling: life changes us, and sometimes we need a way to hold on to who we were before it did.
When we are young, the future feels open. We dream without knowing the cost. We imagine the schools we will attend, the work we will do, the people we will become, and the life waiting for us.
But life does not always follow the plan.
Dreams change. Roads turn. People leave. Responsibilities grow. Some moments make us stronger. Some make us tired. And somewhere along the way, we may begin to forget the version of ourselves who once hoped so honestly.
This space is here to remember that version.
A letter to your future self can carry the dreams, fears, promises, values, and pieces of yourself you never want to lose. It can remind the older you where you started, what mattered, and what kind of person you once hoped to become.
A letter to your younger self can offer the words you needed back then — honesty, forgiveness, comfort, wisdom, and kindness. It can say, “You did your best. You were learning. You were becoming.”
Together, these letters become a growing time capsule — a bridge between who we were, who we are, and who we are still becoming.
There is no perfect age, perfect story, or perfect way to write. Your letter can be hopeful, painful, grateful, messy, simple, unfinished, or full of questions.
What matters is that it is real.
Write gently. Write honestly. Write with care.
One day, your words may reach someone at the exact moment they need them — maybe a stranger, maybe your younger self, maybe the future version of you.