NoJoMo 30 in Book Five: Working Through the Maze 2018

NoJoMo 30 Prompt 2: Write a letter to your future self

NoJoMo 30 Answer 2:

Dear Future Me:

Logic dictates that the future will not be as different as one would hope. No flying cars, no food in pill form, no grand peaceful utopia. So there are things I want to share with you that I hope do matter.

Still be kind. When you started working in Criminal Law, you saw intensely horrible things and were treated terribly. It would have been so easy to become a hardened, mean, brutal, angry fuck right then. But you fought back. You decided that intelligence, compassion, and kindness still had merit. That, in fact, if the world was going to contain such horrible things: it was your job to provide a better example. Hold to that, and if you’ve strayed, come back to that. The world has too much darkness and cruelty already. You needn’t add to that.

Still be curious. As of this writing, it could be true that the world around you as you read this is on fire. Rioting, looting, Climate Change Catastrophe, or just good old Bell Riot level income inequality… all likely. But even as the world collapses, there are new things to learn and new perspectives to appreciate. Don’t fall back so deeply into Fight or Flight that you have no room for exploration and study.

I hope you have stayed connected to family and friends. I hope you’ve stayed in the job you like that pays well. I hope this letter finds you leading a happier and more complete life than you were living when you wrote it. Because life is change… and it is well past time that change turned into a good thing.

NoJoMo 30 Prompt 1: Write about anything you want.

NoJoMo 30 Answer 1:
Hoban “Wash” Washburne playing with a toy dinosaur: Yes. Yes. This is a fertile land and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land! And we will call it… this land!
Wash as Ceratosaurus: I think we should call it your grave!
Wash as the other dinosaur: Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
Wash as Ceratosaurus: Ha ha ha! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die!
Wash as the other dinosaur: Oh no god! Oh, dear God in heaven!