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Chris Bongers

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Rutik Wankhade
Rutik Wankhade
Jan 6, 2021

This is so beautifully written. ✌ Your future self will be proud of yourself.

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Chris Bongers
Chris Bongers
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·Jan 6, 2021

Thank you Rutik,

I hope that grumpy old dude is going to like it 😂 All jokes aside, I do actually look forward to reading this in a year's time having forgotten about it.

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Tapas Adhikary
Tapas Adhikary
Jan 6, 2021

Chris Bongers, Good One Chris. I wish you all the best and keep adding values to the dev community till you reach that old dude, for real!

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Chris Bongers
Chris Bongers
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·Jan 6, 2021

I will, thank you Tapas!

Keep going until the grumpy old Chris writes a blog post.

"Back in the days when we still used JavaScript to make websites"

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Ayu Adiati
Ayu Adiati
Jan 6, 2021

Beautifully written!

I can imagine your future self would smile a lot when he read this 😊

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Chris Bongers
Chris Bongers
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·Jan 6, 2021

Thank you, Ayu!

It's so weird writing for yourself, and writing about yourself. Must say it was a super cool experiment and I liked it so much.

Are you also going to write to yourself as an experiment?

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Ayu Adiati
Ayu Adiati
Jan 6, 2021

Chris Bongers It crossed my mind, yes. I think I will write one my self 😃

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Edidiong Asikpo (Didi)
Edidiong Asikpo (Didi)
Jan 7, 2021

First of all, how did you get the picture of your old self? 😀 Secondly, reading this made me smile so hard and reflect on the importance of taking time out to remind ourselves about what really matters.

I dig this and would love to give it a try as well.

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Chris Bongers
Chris Bongers
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·Jan 7, 2021

I use an app called FaceApp to make myself old haha. A pretty funny app actually.

Thank you, it is! I forget it myself sometimes hence I must write myself letters to remind me 😂 (No I actually do this a lot whilst hiking, just sit down for a second and think about importance)

I would really urge you to try it! Such a good experiment.

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Edidiong Asikpo (Didi)
Edidiong Asikpo (Didi)
Jan 7, 2021

Oh yeah, FaceApp was quite popular some months back.

I agree. I should work on writing the letter this weekend hopefully.

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Ibukun Ogunnaike
Ibukun Ogunnaike
Jan 11, 2021

This is so beautiful Chris...Reading this reminded me of what is most important. Thanks for writing.

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Chris Bongers
Chris Bongers
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·Jan 11, 2021

Thanks! So glad you enjoyed the read. Will you also be writing to your future self?

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Piyush Sinha
Piyush Sinha
Jan 6, 2021

Beautiful ❤️

There is nothing more precious than seeing oneself succeeding in goals set by our own selves.

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Chris Bongers
Chris Bongers
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·Jan 6, 2021

Thank you Piyush, will you be experimenting with this letter to yourself as well?

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Piyush Sinha
Piyush Sinha
Jan 6, 2021

I'm looking forward to writing my version soon.

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Chris Bongers
Chris Bongers
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·Jan 6, 2021

Piyush Sinha Let me know if you do, would love to read it

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