YOUR PLAN · MESSAGES & COLLECTIONS
Schedule by date, milestone, or "after verified release". Each message has one recipient (or a group), one delivery method, and one trigger.
"I want you to know what I was thinking on the day you were born, and what I hoped for you when you were 18. The world is going to ask you what you stand for. I hope you know already…"
"It's been another year. Tell me the part you'd never tell anyone else…"
A short video greeting. Year nine — I'll wear the silly hat. (00:42 recorded)
"By the time you watch this, you've already had to do the hardest thing. I want you to know I'm so proud of you, and that I'm okay…"
"I imagine you're standing on a stage right now and someone is calling your name. I want to tell you the thing my mother told me…"
"I don't know who you'll marry. I don't have to. I want you to know what I learned about loving someone for a really long time…"
A short audio greeting for the family on Christmas morning, recorded 2025. I'll re-record each year while I can.
"Hiroshi — here's what I'd do if I were you, and here's what only you would know. The first 30 days matter more than the next 30 years…"
"There's no one who's known me longer than you. I want to tell you what I never told you because we were busy being sisters…"
COLLECTIONS
FOR MAYA · 14 MESSAGES
Annual birthdays through 30, graduation, wedding, first child.
FOR NOAH · 16 MESSAGES
Annual birthdays, milestones, "open when you're a teenager".
FOR SAM · 12 MESSAGES
Anniversaries, "open when you start dating again", everyday letters.
FAMILY STORIES · 8 MESSAGES
Grandma's recipes, my mother's voice, what I remember of dad.
BUSINESS · 4 MESSAGES
For Hiroshi and the team. Released to specific people only.
PREVIEW · WHAT MAYA WILL SEE
SEPTEMBER 4, 2031 · DELIVERED IN HER OWN ACCOUNT · SAM CONFIRMS BEFORE OPEN
My Maya —
I want you to know what I was thinking on the day you were born, and what I hoped for you when you were 18. The world is going to ask you what you stand for. I hope you know already.
You were born at 4:47 in the morning on a Sunday. I had been awake for almost a full day and your father — yes, he cried — was holding the IV bag and a tiny knit cap a nurse had given us. The cap fell off your head the moment you arrived, and you looked at us like you'd been there before. I think a part of me will always be there too.
I want to tell you the four things I learned about being eighteen — none of which I knew when I was eighteen, which is the joke and also the point…
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Always,
Mom