Dear Past Laura,
This time a year ago you vowed you’d be a different person.
It’s not something you had marked down in a calendar of course, to be discovered on a cold July day next to a reminder about a dentist appointment. It’s just something about you I know to be true because every year, at this exact point in time, you have a reaction to life that’s as predictable as crying through The Notebook on a plane.
You suddenly realise the year is halfway over, and all those things you promised yourself you’d achieve, or change as you went through this emotional crisis this time last year are still sitting there on your To Do list, gathering dust as the clock continues to tick over.
Of course there are some goals on the list we both knew you were never really going to do. So, I'm sure it comes as no surprise to you that you haven't kept a journal, sold the car you never use, or actually returned the numerous ill-fitting online shopping purchases that continually stack up inside your apartment.
At the same time, there's really no way to sugarcoat the fact that many of your other goals also remain untouched.
There are words you promised yourself you'd write that have yet to find themselves on a page, trips you dreamed of taking that never progressed past the planning stages, and people you longed to meet or reconnect with who are not part of your life.
Let's just say there are a lot of corners you could have turned down along the way this past year, but instead, you kept to the safety of the straight road.