I just turned 30, and i've had a shit life. iin?

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I've been alive for almost a decade now, and I've got nothing to show for it, save for a few successful business ventures and a lovely wife.
I just got a letter from myself. Sent to me when I was 12 years old as part of a sixth grade class project where every student was supposed to send a letter to your future self. Turns out, every single student sent a letter to me. Yeah, 28 different letters that all start out with the same sentence: "I hope you're not alive to read this." Here's a gem: "Dear Anon, I hope you're not alive to read this. Every day my dad gives me poison to sneak into your thermos of soup. All I want for my birthday is the courage to finally kill you. He said your dad is an evil man and he's raising you to be the spawn of Satan. Love, Penis Anthony Doubineux. P.S. Go Bills."

Is it normal that I feel this way?

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  • loopoo
    10 years ago | pl

    Why did they send you the letters?

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    • Shrunk
      10 years ago

      i don't get it either, i thought they sent them to him because they figured he would be dead by then, so they could write whatever they want and no one would read it.? or that he has 28 different personalities in an imaginary school? also how do you get mail sent to you 18 years later? lol i'm guessing it's some kind of joke but i'm not getting it

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      • Shrunk
        10 years ago

        also "i've been alive for almost a decade" but "i just turned 30"... wut?

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        • loopoo
          10 years ago

          Yes! They're are so many mysteries to this posting. We should hire a detective.

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        • [Old Memory]
          10 years ago

          I asked about the same thing and they deleted it.

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          • Anonymous Post Author
            10 years ago

            I'm sorry, but this has turned into a public shaming of me.

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            • [Old Memory]
              10 years ago

              At least you're anonymous.

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            • [Old Memory]
              10 years ago

              Don't let the letters get you down either. It sounds like you do have some things going good for you or you wouldn't have had any success. I'm almost 30 too and haven't done much with my life. I often think about how when I was younger I had imagined I would be much further in life than I am now so it's normal to feel that way.

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        10 years ago

        "Sent to me when I was 12 years old as part of a sixth grade class project"

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    • gummy_jr
      10 years ago

      It was to their future selves, so I'm guessing they all want to die

      That's my interpretation

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        10 years ago

        Yeah, but instead of sending it to themselves, they all sent letters to me! How do you think that makes me feel?

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        • Caryopteris
          10 years ago

          Maybe all the letters were sent to all of you.

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        • gummy_jr
          10 years ago

          Like shit and I hope something like that never happens again. That's just cruel... But then again there must be a reason for them to have done that, maybe you're not telling the full story.

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          • Anonymous Post Author
            10 years ago

            Yeah, like shit! Exactly right! And it doesn't exactly help that my dad was an army rat during the vietnam war. Mainly a rat coward who went AWOL during his time at Vietnam. Faked his own death not twice but thrice during the span of 18 months and gave away the names and locations of over 1000 of his comrades.

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      • loopoo
        10 years ago

        Yeah. I want to know what mail they used, that service is disgusting.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      "Sent to me when I was 12 years old as part of a sixth grade class project"

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  • RomeoDeMontague
    10 years ago

    How do you get letters years later? How does this set up work?

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  • Nd55
    10 years ago

    to be honest idk what the fuck ur talking about

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  • noid
    10 years ago

    This makes no sense. Troll.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    "Radio changeable freeway"

    Crystal static broadcast,

    no finer on command,

    secret mister astronaut,

    buried in the sand,

    radio change for spaceships,

    changeable freeway man,

    no longer out of view,

    instead he's called to stand,

    headlights overhang,

    this spaced out freeway man.

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    • Devyn
      10 years ago

      Are you actually coming up with these yourself?

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      • [Old Memory]
        10 years ago

        Well I am a prolific lyricist, so yeah.

        Fuck you, you can't do what I do.

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        • Devyn
          10 years ago

          nope, that I can't :P

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          • [Old Memory]
            10 years ago

            :p

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  • disthing
    10 years ago

    Troll.

    Climb into your scrotum and leave us be.

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  • bemah
    10 years ago

    A decade is ten years.

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  • JakeHurwitz
    8 years ago

    I feel like every time we have a conversation I just... I get so sad for you. At least your mom is a French Canadian queen.

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  • richardbturgid
    10 years ago

    If we had done that project I woukd have had the same letters.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    You've been a live for three decades now, and are going on half a century as you've passed a quarter of a century. I think the issue is that you are letting a 12 year old mind affect a 30 year old's life. I'm right behind you at 25, I like my life it's turned out how I've planned because I was determined. You can make yourself feel like something by just adjusting your mindset.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    if you are 30 you have being a live for Three decades not nearly a decade. as for the rest I really don't care about your crap life.

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  • Aub
    10 years ago

    Right that doesn't sound like a complete lie at all.

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  • SillyKitty55
    10 years ago

    Dude I Am 28And I Am A Coffee Barista. I Am A Single Mom. I Show KithINH To Show InMy Life. I Feel Like I Never Lived You Have No Kids To.My Knowledge. Live Your Life. Don't Be Afraid Or Ashame. Go And Have Fun..

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago

    O_O What country did you grow up in? Surely, the letters would have been monitored by the teachers? Letters like that are considered a threat. Since, you now have proof you can sue these people especially, the boy who under the instructions of his father was told to poison you.

    I'm sorry you've had to deal with this. I have been alive for nearly two decades and while I've dealt with my fair share of trauma and what not, as far as I know I've never had someone try to poison me. These assholes aside, I'm sure there are people out there who care about you. They say success is the biggest revenge so you do have something to shame them with. I don't know you but yet I find myself caring for you which definitely should say something. :)

    I wish you the best of luck with your life (and please, consider a lawsuit. I think your case is pretty strong.)

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      I would agree with you, but as it turns out, my whole class hates me. Yeah, even my teacher, Ms. Nesbit, sent me a letter:
      "Dear Anon, I hope you're not alive to read this. So, you have a black heart and no brain. You're ruthless mean and dumb. P.S. Do the Bills ever win the superbowl? Ha ha ha ha ha ha!".
      I mean, when even my bestfriend Kyle writes a letter like that to me, I feel like those couple of successful business ventures where completely pointless: "Dear Anon, DIE, Go Bills, Love Kyle."
      I'm not sure yet, but I feel like I should just jump into my closest neighbor A.K.A. the Niagara Falls.

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      • Avant-Garde
        10 years ago

        Can you bring this up with the Education Board in your country?

        Please, think your options over carefully. :)

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          10 years ago

          COnsidering this was three decades ago, I'm going to say no.

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  • Pandappear
    10 years ago

    ... Do you have multiple personalities? :o

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      No, but my mother, who is a French-Canadian queen, is.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    A decade is 10 years, not 30.

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  • Belly_Cameron
    10 years ago

    It reminds me of a time when i was skinny.

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    • Devyn
      10 years ago

      this actually made some sense on this thread http://isitnormal.com/story/is-it-normal-to-be-obsessed-with-dark-depressing-things-160010/

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  • Dillon
    10 years ago

    Coz some damn fool told me you were the best.

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