I want to scoop minutes up and feel like I can’t possibly carry all the hours to the end of my driveway. Right now, your thirty-something self is needy. I want to tell you all the things I want in my life. I’m struggling to imagine who you are.Ĭan I be honest? You’re you, after all. I guess this letter is sort of like inception. You’re as old as your mom was when you wrote this letter. In a way, that’s what the most honest writing does for us anyway. I want to ask questions and discover what scares me about getting older. But, I want to write a letter with more intention. We imagine the future in great depth, struggling to center on the present. We write through dreams and aspirations, ideals, and healing. When I think about it, we are always (sort of) writing to future versions of ourselves. I want to write a letter with more intention. But is it helpful? How can we best explore who we might become? How can we best break down the walls of the person we’re afraid to see? How do we write about the unknown? Sure, giving advice to our past selves is fun.
When we write to selves about the past, we know them and there’s a pompous clarity in the writing. This person could have children, not have children, experience loss, grow old, find growth, experience unknown pain, and develop new habits. I want to dedicate time to that mystery soul. I want to explore how the future me might feel. The theme on Wit & Delight this month is “Show Up As Yourself.” So, I was intrigued to write about the possibility of change and speak to a portion of myself I don’t know. But why look back? What about our future selves? What questions do we want to ask? What do we wonder? You’re going to be so proud of yourself! I even wrote one in 2019, a tough love letter to my twenty-something self. You can’t go through life afraid to live it. Here’s what I would say to my post-pandemic self, they read. It might be a hard game to recommend because it really has to click for you, but when it does it's absolutely beautiful.I’ve seen a lot of letters to past selves. But overall it's such an amazing experience I can look past all that. There are also some little bugs here and there, like drawings in your journal not loading in the high res version.
But even with all that I still loved every minute of it, and some of the encounters with people and their small stories are really touching. The first sections feel like this grand journey, but when it opens up it suddenly feels like you're sticking to one place. And weirdly enough, by opening up it all suddenly feels smaller. You get a bigger sense you can miss stuff, as before you went from A to B and just tried to record everything that catched your eye. It's also the moment the whole thing becomes a bit more narrative driven, as you meet more people and can discover a lot of backstory (which leaves a lot open to interpretation) From there on it felt a bit more like homework, visiting every sub-area and discovering as much story bits as you can to puzzle it all together. Half-way through it kind of opens up, letting you move freely through a bigger area with different sub-area's. I enjoyed it the most though when it was quiet and contemplative and more linear.
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It's a game about stories too, and how to tell them. This is a game that truly makes you reflect on the importance of memories and recordings, about what you believe is important and what's not. (You'll notice when that happens because Estelle comments on it once you photograpg it, or the sound recording get sa unique drawing) I loved pondering over the journal and trying to fit everything in I thought was beautiful and trying to decide which text I would add and how I would lay it all out.
It were the moments you saw and discovered and found worthwile to keep and record that were important, not collecting every little piece the game deems worthy to collect. But along the way it kind of dawned on me that this wasn't necessairy. It's a slowburn, especially if you want to try and find everything there is to find. It has been a while since the moment I shut of a game I was thinking about starting it up again. I can understand it's not everyone's cup of tea and it definitely has some flaws, but it's one of the most compelling games I've played in years.
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