Life Lessons

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Mitch Brogan, says the opening of The Letter was, as always, an E-Mail from you

In August 1991 , an 11-year-old canadian wrote a short note to his future self.

Mitch Brogan have. the idea of his late grandfather, Charles - answer a list of 11 predictions and sealed in an envelope, to 1. January, 2020.

The Letter remained hidden in a book of his grandfather's office until his death in 2006, when his grandson came across it by chance.

He waited to Open It , as promised, until the day of the New Year . So, what, he be right about life in the year 2020?

The 39-year-old from London, Ontario, said he could not remember much about what he'd written in The Note . Inside the envelope was a thin, folded piece of paper and an old, ratty, Canadian 1 Dollar bill from 1954 was.

But he said that when he opened The Note , "back-everything listed. "

"if he said, my words on the page, I think [makes] The Strokes ", of the Bbc .

Mitch Brogan (left, with friend) often with his grandfather in the summer of

breaks At the beginning of The Letter to his childhood address, the Date -25 was well attended. August 1991 - and a rough map on two other capsules time, he and his cousin had buried on their grandfather's property.

What were his in advance, which is now almost three decades old?

He would be married, have two kids and A House , a boat, a car and a truck. He would be a writer and "might be a lawyer" [sic] and it would have deserved, a beautiful C$450 ($345; £265) a month.

He had the earth, the gloomy forecasts about The Environment , the idea of a world where none of the rivers and lakes would be clean, and where people can "infect" other planets and "trash like you".

Mr Brogan said he was an "Outdoor" kid, enjoyed, Cycling, and baseball, and the early instincts of the business man had, he would Grow Up to be.

He said that he and a friend about C$300 help this summer from the neighborhood, to get rid of the earwig infestation.

The time capsule was the kind of thing she would do, his grandfather, he recalls.

"He was a strong, stern, loving people," said Mr. Brogan.

Charles Brogan brought his grandchildren many Life Lessons

A commercial diver, Charles Brogan taught his grandson How To dive and keep the life-lessons that have served Mr. Brogan well over The Years , including in the eyes, that all experiences in life are "just a moment In Time ".

As for his predictions, in the letters, most of them never came into existence. He is not married, has No Children , and humanity still has, to the colonization of other planets.

He is neither a lawyer nor a writer but an entrepreneur, and the most recently established, to help an institution with The Mission to people with movement restrictions in the access to technologies that improve their quality of life.

He started a company that developed technology and tools for people with reduced mobility.

In 2006, life threw him a curveball. Mr Brogan was hit by a drunk driver and suffered a Spinal Cord injury that left him Tetra.

"After The Accident , my entrepreneurship came," he said.

Mr Brogan is hoping The Letter is just the beginning in a series of time-capsule mystery is solved. He intends to see if he can dig what he and his cousin buried years ago his grandfather, the property, if the current owners allow it.

And he is grateful he stumbled on his letter, the books tucked under his grandfather, not Long After Charles Brogan died of complications of Parkinson's disease.

"you think the things with the time lost, just like everything else," he said.

ontario, canada

Source of news: bbc.com