The Road Taken

Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2013 00:00:01 +0800
From: qaphsiel28@hotmail.com
Subject: Open Immediately
To: qaphsiel28@hotmail.com

Good day,

            How did you feel when you saw the latest unread email in your inbox was in fact from your own email address? Assuredly, you will still be using this email address when you are fifty-five years old.

            This email is written by you in the year 2048. Truly, I am your future self. You are an extraordinary thinker. Thus, I assume no long-winded evidences are needed for you to verify my identity. For your benefits, you should believe me.

            I am now sitting in my office, typing to you after reading an extremely crucial email. I have spent your future thirty years of our life to create the “Retro-Email System”. The system enables email to travel through space and time, reaching to people in your era. For your information, day after tomorrow will be the press conference of announcing the stunning system to the public.

            You must be bemused. You might think it must be a joke for a current Psychology mediocre student to invent that kind of world-shocking system in future. How will that happen? I am not so sure. However, I remember at some point of our life, sometime between you and me, you will get a surprise attack from a vast motivation from nowhere. Then, you will get bored in investigating human and exert all your energy in inventing something that drastically impacts the world . “Retro-Email System” will be the product of your thirty years of energy.

            Back to the tremendously significant email I mentioned just now. It was from our future self. He is the one in the year 2058. In a very solemn manner, he stated that people in his era are changing their histories. They regretted doing things that they have done. Hence, they sent emails to the early of themselves, trying to alter their life histories. Their acts had disturbed the laws of nature. Gradually, the world will be turned into a mess. So, he sent the email to me, begging me remorsefully not to publish the system on the day after tomorrow.

             I am in an awfully painful dilemma. As I have revealed moments ago, I used up thirty wonderful years to invent the system. I am fifty-five now. If the system is not declared, my remaining life will be thrown into darkness. Repentance will accompany me until the day I am buried under the ground .

            Imploring you is the solely method I can think of to untie the mishap. Through your redoing, I am actually undoing what I have done. The unknown motivation will probably hit you in your next few years. You should be prepared and disperse it. Much of the time, I doubt if I have chosen the wrong path. Now, I truly confirm that I chose the wrong road. Please, keep putting your foot in front of the other and walk the road towards becoming a psychologist. I am unsure if it will be brilliant, but the life I am having now should be the most horrible one. Helping others is always our lifetime wish. You should never fail to stick to it. Change your history and varnish me. The world will be nicer if you concentrate on the road you are taking now.

            At the moment, as the system is still imperfect, I will not be able to receive your email. No reply is needed. I will explain more about it to you soon.

Best regards,

Lai