THIRD DAY OF QUARANTINE
It was a windy day so Millie decided to have her coffee inside the house. The leaves had started to turn an orange colour showing that autumn was around the corner. Millie enjoyed her coffee standing by her window. She spent her day cleaning, cooking, and working on her subjects.
When Millie was boiling some water for the noodles for lunch, she heard someone ringing the bell. She lowered the heat of the stove and ran to check who it was. Then there was a bang in the door. Millie checked who it was from the window. There was a delivery man with a big parcel. Millie opened the door.
"Miss Millie please"
"Yes... how can I help you?"
"There is a gift parcel for you ma'am...
Please sanitize your hands and sign this confirming that you received the parcel."
Millie was surprised to receive a parcel. She did not question the delivery guy as he seemed in a hurry. She took the parcel and went inside. A curiosity was rising in her mind to see what was inside and who sent it to her. She slowly sat on the sofa and started unpacking the gift box. There was another cardboard box inside. Millie found a greeting card inside the wrapping paper.
"These are to keep you out of boredom in these fourteen days.
Hope you like them.
From: Mike ;)"
Millie rolled her eyes out of being annoyed. Then she looked into the box. There was a stack of books inside the box. Millie carefully removed the wrapping paper and took out the bundle of books out of the cardboard box. There were a lot of books. Millie checked a few books on the top. All of them were love stories by the great romance author Nicholas Sparks. Millie's favourite author.
"But how did Mike get to know this is my favourite author?
Why is he so much into me?"
Millie was so annoyed by this behaviour. She kept all the books on her bookshelf and carried on with her lunch-making. She made some delicious Chinese chicken noodles with some passion fruit juice to company them.
While having a quick nap, Millie was wondering what to do on that day of her quarantine. She drowned in her thoughts for a while and finally got an idea.
"A letter for my future self would be perfect.
I did this last when I was in secondary school.
I really should do it today."
Millie jumped out of her bed and started running here and there in her room. She then sat on her chair and started thinking of a way of starting the letter. It actually took a while.
"Dear Millie"
She penned these words first. Then she continued writing the most important letter of her life. From herself to the future self.
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Dear Millie,
I hope you are reading this message with a smile on your face, wishing you could go back in time to tell that everything makes sense at the right time and everything is going to be alright. I hope you wake up every morning happy and excited to be alive. Especially I hope you are happy with the way you have spent these years doing what makes you happy. Things must have changed a lot. But I hope you haven't changed your character or even if you have changed, I hope it is all for the good and the bettering of yourself. Keep smiling girl. You deserve this beautiful smile on your face.
You must be completing your PhD degree right now or may be wondering about doing it after completing the master's degree. Go for it girl, you can do it my darling. After all the struggle you have been through in completing your bachelor's degree for a whole four years and hopefully being completed your master's degree, you deserve to be called "the doctor of philosophy in psychotherapy". Yes, darling! I want to see you as a great doctor and want to accomplish the dream of the little girl giving candy as medicine wearing a doctor's coat and playing with the doctor kit you got for your birthday. Also, don't forget that making yourself a doctor is mom and dad's dream too. Even though you could not go for medicine you have got this great opportunity to help people with their mental health and well-being. And I know that's what you always wanted after being through so many things all alone with no one by your side. No one but Ryan is by your side.
Coming to this point, I hope you have totally moved on with your new life that has no Ryan in it. I hope you would have been able to take him off your mind and from your life and its hopes and dreams. He is no more yours and he was never meant to be your darling. I knowww. He might have been by your side when nobody else was and he might have meant the whole world to you. But still, he left you right. He is someone else's husband now. So I strongly believe you don't have anything to do with him right now. Anything; I mean not even regret keep aside the worry and hurt. Just find peace and happiness within yourself so the right person can enter your life at your best moment.
Please don't stop smiling. I pray that you have found someone that adds smiles to your face and happy moments to your days as well. Well, I'm not kidding girl. I hope you have found the right guy. I hope it's not "Mike, the handsome police officer". If you smiling at this I bet it's him who has won your heart. Hehe okay. I should not drag about him. What if it's not him? I hope you have gained back faith in marriage and a happily married you. I hope you would have lots of cute little kids in the future and not just one kid like your parents. I hope you are happy with your own family. Especially I wonder if you have achieved your dream wedding already. No? Maybe within a year or two.
Okay! Okay! I'll stop talking about those now. What shall we focus on? I hope you have built or moved into your dream home here or in Canada. Most of all darling I hope that you are honestly happy for yourself. Happy about where you have come so far, happy about whom you are surrounded by, happy about what have you achieved in life, and happy about your health and beauty. Because no matter what you get in life, if you're not happy with yourself about your life nothing makes sense. Am I right? So be happy always.
Finally, I hope you find this letter when you need it the most. Not being unhappy about life, but at a time when you need some push from yourself. As I always say, please keep aside the negativity and be genuinely happy. Because happiness looks so good on you with that beautiful and bright smile on your face. So, I stop by here right now. Don't ever forget yourself in the process of helping others and being busy. You matter. Goodbye from your old self.
With lots of love and care,
Millie.
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Millie read the letter all over again. She felt so happy with how it was written. The letter was friendly as well as motivating. Millie folded the letter, sealed it inside an envelope, and kept it inside her safe. So she will be having the letter for as long as possible. Millie felt happy and satisfied with how she has spent these first three days of her self-isolation. After a long time, Millie had a good night's sleep on that day too. She nearly overslept with no noise coming from Scooby either.