Like, okay. So the average life expectancy in the US is 78.6 years or something like that.

Assuming we live to e that ol!, an! !on"t get hit y a us or mugge! an! shot in the near
future, that means we have only known each other for aout #.$% of our lives, so far.
An! for the next 77% of your life, you will not see me every !ay or e in the same city as
me. &ur relationship"s est gol!en times are locke! into the confinement of that #.$%.
'ut there will e other people that you will see every !ay an! e in the same city as, that
you will e ale to laugh with an! speak to an! hug them or kiss them an! watch movies
with an! hol! their han! when they are sa! an! experience life with. ("m really )ealous of
those people.
An! think aout how much has happene! in your #*% that has alrea!y taken place. +hink
of all the !ifferent people you"ve known, things you"ve experience!, places you"ve een.
(t seems like so much, yet you coul! hypothetically relive your entire life so far * more
times efore you !ie. (t"s not as much as you think it is. ,ust like our #.$% isn"t, really - in
the time you have left, you coul! have almost *. more relationships )ust like ours
/assuming they woul!n"t overlap, which means there coul! e even more.0 ("ve )ust kin!
of reali1e! that we get so trappe! into the ule of our own existence that everything
seems so gran! an! so important, when really, we are )ust a couple of specks of nothing,
one in 7 illion, an! all these moments we experience each !ay only account for a measly
.2*3,444,444 or whatever, an! will e easily forgotten in .4 years or maye less. (n .4
years, you proaly won"t think aout me very much ecause you like to think aout +he
5ow an! ( won"t e a part of +he 5ow, ("ll e a part of +hen. 'ut still, you"ll proaly
rememer my name, maye vaguely what ( looke! like an! a few things that happene!.
'ut you won"t rememer what my voice soun!s like or what each of my facial
expressions mean or the time you sat next to me at Sun!ay in the 6ark 7ith 8eorge, an!
this letter will proaly get thrown away in a ox of !um stuff from high school when
you move into your first apartment with your serious girlfrien! at the age of ##.
(t makes me sort of melancholy, thinking aout that. 5umers make me melancholy. (
guess that"s why ( never think aout them. +hey make everything seem so minute. (
mean, ( like to think ( am more to a person than )ust one in 7 illion. (t makes me feel like
( have to work ten times har!er to e important to someone, an! write 3 page long letters
instea! of 6, an! tell them ( love them every !ay in hopes that in .4 years, you"ll still
rememer it.
( try to tell myself that ("m going to forget too, ut it somehow !oesn"t seem possile in
this situation, for me. ( can"t imagine not rememering you.