Hi Me in the Future,
嗨未來的我，
I hope everything is going well for you. You know, I've always worried about you, ever since I was a kid. They say I am just a transitional period for what is yet to come - you. A grown up, more experienced, more complex and more evolved version of me. To be sure, I can't wait to get to know you and see what you've become in a couple of years. Even if that means letting go of me at this moment, typing, which will be a thing of the past for you. I have no regrets - everything I do is for you. You are me, after all.
我希望你那邊一切順利。你知道，我一直很擔心你，從我還是個孩子的時候就開始了。他們說我只是一個過渡期，為了迎接即將到來的－你。一個長大的，更有經驗，更復雜而且更加進化的我的版本。當然，我等不及要在幾年后認識你并看到你成為的模樣。即使那意味著放棄現在正在打字的我，因為她對你來說會是過去時。我沒什么遺憾－我做的一切都是為了你。畢竟，你就是我嘛。
There are several things I need you to know about me. I must confess I am currently trapped in a very chaotic and skeptical stage. The uncertainties that lie ahead of me are infinite and invisible. To break through this conundrum, I must make some risky decisions, which inevitably will affect you. My biggest challenge now is to choose between two paths: one that is safe but almost guaranteed to bore you to death, the other appealing to my heart but built upon a shaky foundation. There might be an alternative, that is to combine different elements of the two aforementioned options and create an eclectic path. However, to walk such a path require a lot of originality as few people have done it before.
我需要讓你了解幾件關于我的事情。我必須承認我現在陷在一個非常混亂和多疑的階段。擺在我面前的是無窮且隱形的不確定性。想要突破這個困境，我必須做一些有風險的決定，而這不可避免地會影響到你。如今我最大的挑戰是從兩條道路中做出選擇：一條安全但幾乎保證會讓你無聊至死，另一條更從心所欲但建立在不太穩固的根基上。可能會還有另一種選擇，那就是結合前面兩個選項的不同元素并創造出一條折衷的道路。然而，要走出這么一條路需要很多的創造力，畢竟以前很少有人這么做過。
While I am fully aware that everything I do will have an impact on you, and that these impacts can be either positive, negative, neither or both, I can't foresee anything now. Thus, I ask you to tolerate the trials and errors I go through in my life. It is quite selfish for me to disregard the future and make choices according to my current will. That is to say, someday you may regret the decisions I've made and blame me for them. If this is the case, I beg your forgiveness, but I really can't help it. As a young person, I am blinded by a certain degree of ignorance, or lack of experience. I hope, however, that you will allow some room for me to experiment and fail.
盡管我完全清楚我做的所有事都會對你有影響，而這些影響可能是正面的，負面的，都不是或者兩者都是，但是我現在無法預見任何事。因此，我請求你寬容我人生中經歷的嘗試與差錯。我無視未來而根據自己現在的意愿做出選擇的行為是挺自私的。也就是說，有一天你可能會后悔我做出的那些決定并且怪罪我。如果確實如此，我希望你能原諒我，但我確實沒辦法阻止這一切。作為一個年輕人，我會被一定程度的無知和缺乏經驗所蒙蔽。然而，我希望你能給予我一定的空間去試驗和失敗。
Of course, I hope that whatever decision I am going to make down the line will eventually make you happy. And I want to you to know that I have deep faith in you; it's the premise in everything I do. I know that you have greater potentials than anything I can imagine now, and I look forward to be surprised by your accomplishments. And when you look back at me and this letter, I hope you would appreciate my efforts and write something back to me. We'll pretend that I can actually read it. Until then, I look forward to hearing back from you.
當然，我希望我未來將要做出的任何決定都最終使你感到快樂。我也想讓你知道我對你充滿了信心；這是我做任何事情的前提。我知道你擁有比我現在所能想象到的還要大的潛力，并且期待著驚喜于你的成就。而當你回想起我和這封信的時候，我希望你會欣賞我的努力并給我寫封回信。我們可以假裝我真的能讀到它。在那之前，我會一直期待著你的消息。
Sincerely,
Me at age 19
此致，
19歲的我
