Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of rejuvenesence and were worked up by a band of Noble Human-Beings and other riff-raff into highly artistic but inexpensive wall-adornments. Only since then has progress in communications really got into its stride. Who, in the end, is to take it amiss if even the freest of free spirits no longer write for an imaginary posterity, more trusting, if possible, than even their contemporaries, but only for the dead God? .Theodor W. Adorno
About This Quote
The idea of “writing a letter to your future self” is a wonderful thing. It allows you to look back at your life and give yourself advice. In the end, the advice that you give yourself will be accurate as long as you are honest with yourself. However, it also has a heavy dose of hope.
The reality is that your future self will not see those letters. You will probably never know what they would have said or what they should have said because you could not have foreseen the circumstances that would arise in the future.
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