Indledning
Have you ever wished that you share some knowledge with your younger self? To avoid things that you regret from happening or telling her something that you wished you know back then. To tell her to stop trying so hard to fit in, because she will find people who love her for who she is, tell her to appreciate living together with her family, or not saying that thing you really regret saying.
Writing a letter to your younger self is a common thing in the literary world, as Cora Frazier does in her short story “To my younger self”, published to the New Yorker the 16th August 2016. What is remarkable about Frazier’s story, is that she goes beyond her current age, and imagines what her dead self would tell her current self.
In a way to cheat time, she tries to learn her life lessons before they are learned, and in that way live a more meaningful life.
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Uddrag
In the short story the narrator addresses her younger self, as foretold by the title of the story. She looks back at her life in the first 3 paragraphs, stating all the things that she reckons she should not have done, from when she was a child to when she was a teenager.
She tells herself that when she dies and becomes a ghost, she shall not waste her time acting on her regrets and people that did her wrong. She shall, however, concentrate on cherishing those who love her, like her boyfriend and her mother.
The story is a way for her to look back at her own life, her regrets, and trying not to dwell on them, but instead remember to be grateful for what she has, when she still has it. In the end of the story she lets go of her spirit form and moves on to another form of existence.
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