Project Overview
This project is my personal take on “Letter to My Son” by Rhiannon Fawcett. Instead of diving into predictions or data, it looks at the future through a more personal and story-like lens. Inspired by this, I wrote my own letter to a child born in 2020, from the viewpoint of 2025, meant to be read in 2035. The letter is a way to reflect on what’s going on now, like our gadgets, worries, values, and dreams. While also thinking about how these things might shape the world they’ll grow up in.
Rather than showing the future as set in stone, this project uses storytelling to capture all the uncertainty, care, and responsibility. Writing this lets me mix my personal thoughts and feelings with bigger cultural issues like technology, focus, ownership, and truth. Through this, the letter serves as both a message to the future and a way for me to better understand my connection with the world today.
REFLECTION
Working on this project let me take a peek into the future from a personal angle instead of just guessing or predicting. By writing a letter to a kid, I got to think about our current world—its gadgets, routines, and values—and ponder how they might be seen or questioned down the road. Writing directly to someone made my thoughts feel more real, heartfelt, and honest.
Through this, I learned that storytelling is a great way to reflect. It makes it easier to talk about big ideas like our tech habits, focus, ownership, and responsibility in a way that's relatable. Instead of providing clear-cut answers, the letter embraces uncertainty, care, and hope, highlighting why curiosity, critical thinking, and having a say are so crucial in our fast-paced world. In the end, this project reminded me how narratives can help tie our personal experiences to bigger cultural issues.