MOMENTS IN TIME
Some moments deserve to travel forward
The summer after the big exam, the small hours after a baby is born, the last countdown of the year... some moments just make you want to say something to the future. Here you'll find real letters, sorted by occasion, that writers chose to make public. Maybe they'll help you find your own first line.
Write this momentChoose a chapter
What kind of moment are you in?
Read a few real letters and find your own first line.
To future self
Want to write a letter to your future self but don't know where to start? Read real letters people sent one, five, even ten years ahead — then write your own. Free to send, delivered right on time.
Gaokao
Every June, students facing China's gaokao write down this exact moment — and send it to the self who'll be holding an admission letter, or finishing freshman year. Read their letters, then leave your own.
Big exams
Preparing for China's grad-school entrance exam is a lonely road. Read letters people wrote to their post-results selves — then put your own long year into words and send it ahead.
Graduation
After the cap-and-gown photos and the farewell dinner, many graduates write one last letter — to themselves a few years on, or to a roommate. Read theirs, and leave yours before you turn in the keys.
To my child
The day they're born, their first birthday, their first day of school — parents write letters here for the grown-up their child will become, delivered at eighteen or beyond. Read theirs, and leave one for yours.
To my love
In the thick of new love, mid long-distance, the night before a proposal — people write to their partners here, for delivery on an anniversary, a wedding day, or ten years out. Read theirs, then write yours.
To parents
Some things are hard to say to your parents' faces. People write them here instead — delivered on a birthday, a retirement day, or the next family reunion. Read these letters, then send yours home.
To a friend
Graduation goodbyes, a friend moving away, years of friendship — people write letters here and make a pact to open them together someday. Read these letters to friendship, then send one to yours.
Birthday
More and more people end their birthday the same way: blow out the candles, then write a letter to next year's self — wishes, worries and all — delivered exactly one birthday later. Start yours here.
New Year
Every December 31st, people close out the year here: the wins and losses, the resolutions — sealed in a letter that arrives exactly one New Year's Eve later. Come read this year's letters.
Anniversary
First anniversaries, tenth wedding anniversaries, the day a child was born — people capture the moment here and send it to next year's anniversary. Read their letters, then write one for yours.
Healing
Heartbreak, a lost job, losing someone you love — people come here on their hardest days and write to the self who'll have come through it. These letters are proof: even this will pass.
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No exact match? That is okay.
Your day never needed a category.
