Time Capsule Letter

Dear whomever it concerns, (even aliens or weird beings)

My name is Danielle Elizabeth Marie Furlong and I am 15 years old writing for a time capsule you may or may not eventually open, I don’t know what kind of being you will be (not that I’m one of those alien crazed people) but you never know right?  I always wonder what the future will be like and if I will live to see how the world may change but I doubt I will.  Technology has advanced since the 90’s and the current date at this moment (if you’re wondering) is December 4^th 2012.

 I always wanted the world to be like the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, in case you haven’t read it I’ll give you some background information, You grow up normal in a dorm and go to school until you turn 16, that’s when you undergo this transformation to turn you beautiful, you can decide how you look (how awesome is that?!) and they even have giant screens and computers you talk to and a hole in the wall that spits out whatever you want to wear.  Personally I think the hole in the wall spitting out whatever you want to wear is just the best thing ever created from someone’s mind.

I don’t really think it’s that important for anyone to remember me, after all we’re all going to be forgotten eventually anyway.  No one reading this is going to know how I am right now, my thoughts or even my voice.  It’ll just be a letter and a name.  God, I’m such a negative nelly.  I’m really just an average person, I don’t want to be forgotten no one wants to be forgotten but you can’t help the inevitable. 

My family is a normal family, we fight a lot, and I don’t really get along with them but what teenager does?  I spend most of my time in the basement of my house which I have all to myself, no one goes down so I just assume I have it all to myself.  I love my aunts however, they are really awesome, my mom is really serious and my dad is a giant grumpy teddy bear.  So just picture a drill sergeant and a stuffed toy.  I bet you’re laughing right now, imagining that I must look like the crossbreed of the century, but I look nothing like a stuffed toy or a drill sergeant, thank god.

My community, hmm, how should I explain Blackville?  Blackville sucks.  It’s a small, small town having only about 990 people, we don’t have a fancy school with all star sports and amazing classes, we don’t have a mall.  We have lots of truck stops and fast food places though.  People around here never really have much to do because no one seems to think about the kids, we really have nothing to do around here.  Some end up getting in trouble often and some people never leave the house enough.  It’s hard to get a good balance of leaving the house and managing to find something to do and just not bothering to leave the house at all.  I can’t wait to leave when I graduate, the population of Blackville usually just ends up to be old people who come to retire, which it is a beautiful place to retire to, there’s just not a future here for me.  Until I’m old and gray that is.

The world, what should I say about the world.  Some horrible thing happen, a lot of horrible things happen around the world, every second someone dies and every second four people are born.  Then you have horrible things that happen like the holocaust and 9/11 and volcano eruptions and tournedos and tsunamis and hurricanes.  Thankfully hardly anything that horrific happens here.  There are things like murder, world hunger, rape; things that happen and people hardly notice anymore.  It is truly horrific.  The world is so beautiful though, there are ruins from ancient cities being uncovered and human beings are doing wonderful things even though there is horrible things there are more beautiful things to cover up the horrible and that is what is so amazing about the world.

I’m Danielle and I hope the future is as good as the past if not better.