My 100-Year-Old Self

Daily writing prompt
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self.

Where do they come up with this stuff? When I first saw this prompt, I thought that I would just ignore it and write about one of the prompts I put out there a couple of days ago. Then I thought this is just too weird not to write something. I most likely would be writing a letter to a dead person. There is not much of a chance that I or anybody is going to live to a 100. I know there are a few that do it. As of right now there are a little over 100,000 people in the United States that are 100 years or older. That is about .03% of the population. Not as bad as lottery odds but still pretty slim. Most likely I would be writing to my dead self. My letter would be short and to the point. How does it feel to be dead? If possible, please let me know. Signed your 73 soon to be 74 year old self. Now if somehow, I managed to make it to 100 still alive this letter would also be brief. Dear 100-year-old self. Looks like I even screwed this up because there was no way I wanted to live to be 100 years old. I just hope that I know what day it is, and I can get out of bed. I hope I can control my bowels and bladder. I do not care if I can even play golf at this point. I did it but this has to be the worst writing prompt of them all and there have been some pretty bad ones. At least this one is not something you answer with one sentence. Back to doing my taxes and watching the golf tournament.

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