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Dear Mickey,

Hello! How are you recently? I hope everything is nice with you.

I know now you must be curious who am I, but I won’t tell you at the moment, I will tell you at the end of this letter. Why? It is all because of you! I am a special person to you, so if I tell you who am I, hmmm, according to what I have known about you, you will keep asking me questions about me and never focus on what I want to tell you. So please be patient and read my letter first, ok? Now let’s get down to business.

In this letter, I just want to discuss one thing with you, that is my humble comprehension about being yourself. As people always like to say “Be yourself!” Mickey, have you ever thought of its deeper meaning? If you do, that is a good start. Now I will share you my view. Being yourself, for me, is to keep the main good personalities of yourself, and improve your shortcomings by learning from others who you admire. However, during the learning, you should grasp the moderate principle, never lose yourself. I know everytime when you don’t get what others have said clearly, you will ask examples. Of course I will also give you my examples, after all what I have told above is quite abstract. But don’t worry even if you can’t understand it well at the moment, I am sure later in the life you will digest it, that’s true.

Let’s say ourselves, we both want to be a good person, but do you know your merits well? 
I bet even good person has different kinds. Your kind is your merits. 
Henrik Ibsen says, “it is your supreme duty to cast yourself into a useful implement.”
 Here I cite his sentence just want to tell you, you have to know your merits first, 
then set your goals and built up your life. Secondly, you should learn of your dismerits. 
How? keep a watchful eye on others feedback about yourself. Though Dante said, 
walking in your own road,let others talk, you must know this motto has its own context, 
better not apply mechanically and believe blindly. Ok, give you a simple example, 
if someone insulted you, don’t be hurry to be angry and hate him, ask yourself what he had 
said about you was just angry words or including the complaint on your dismerits. 
Yes, I have to say it is so hard to do so, yet you can try, try your best. 

Haha, now you can ask me who I am. Guess? Ok, I tell you, I am Mickey too, from 2033.
 Because you have dreamt the old mickey but not me, so I felt jealous and I decided to write
 this letter to remind you mid-life mickey is also wonderful! Lol…

I have to stop here, it is a beautiful day and I am leaving to go fishing! 
See you 20 years later! Take care and have a nice day there! Best wishes~

Mid-life Mickey