TikToker gets strange ancient email — from her 13-year-old self. ‘Why am I crying’
Michelle Skidelsky was checking her email when she noticed a strange message sitting in her inbox.
It was to her, from her — seven years ago.
When she was 13, Skidelsky used a website to write emails to herself in the future and picked random dates for the messages to send. One of them was in March 2023.
(Warning: The video contains explicit language.)
Skidelsky, who lives in Ontario, Canada, shared the adorable email from her past self on TikTok and said, “Don’t let this fool you, 13-year-old me was really annoying.”
Young Skidelsky asked her future self if she enjoys her life and whether she went to school to be a doctor. Current Skidelsky answers, with a chuckle, that she is a communications major.
“I am very well if that makes any difference,” young Skidelsky wrote. “If I was you and I found out that my past self was very well, I would be very happy.”
Young Skidelsky asked her future self to go treat herself to a doughnut when she receives the email and tells her she knows she is capable of great things.
“If your life has gone horribly wrong I’m sorry, but your life was awesome at one point and don’t regret making your life horrible because at one point it was everything you wanted,” young Skidelsky wrote.
“Wise, wise words,” current Skidelsky said.
The adorable and witty TikTok has more than 3 million views and hundreds of comments.
“This is incredibly cute,” one viewer said. “I love it and I love your 13-year-old self. She’s very sweet.”
“I did the same thing and sent her my letter when I was at my lowest, broke (and) depressed,” another said. “And received it years later the day I got engaged in Paris.”
“Why am I crying?” a third added.
Skidelsky said she used the website futureme.org to write her letters, which viewers said they immediately flocked to so they could write their own.
This story was originally published April 3, 2023 at 3:41 PM with the headline "TikToker gets strange ancient email — from her 13-year-old self. ‘Why am I crying’."
