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So I have an idea…I want to send a letter…a letter to humanity.

One evening many moons ago, I was casually patrolling the internet when I happened to chance upon a particular article that caught my eye. The story was about a time capsule opened after a 100 years. I have always been fascinated with time capsules. Little morsels of history flung far into the future, with the intention of revealing present life to future little earthlings.

Jean-Marc Phillipe was also rather taken by the idea. He was the creator and leader of the KEO project until he passed away in 2008. A group of scientists acquired a soon to be defunct Satellite, and now plan to hurl it far into the earth’s atmosphere for 50,000 years, harbouring messages from people of today for our distant descendants.

But as I wrote my entry, I thought by and large the message I had for future humanity, was very much applicable to people today.

So why wait? Why not send a message to humanity right now?

And that is exactly what I intend to do, and hope to provide a platform from which others might also leave their message to humanity. What’s great about this compared to the KEO project, is that anyone can read your open letter, and take some value from it, whether that be the day it’s posted, or many years after your demise. And with the prevalence of blogging I thought it would be a fun little experiment, to see what people had to say to the human race.

Now with a whole lot of trial and error, I’ve set up this simple platform called The Archive from which to do just that. You might of also noticed the link I put up on the menu bar of my personal blog, and perhaps that’s how you’ve found your way here today.

Send a message to humanity, for the people of today, tomorrow and far into the future.

I invite you to write a (roughly) 800 word piece as your one message to the world. You can use pictures and video’s to help you convey your message also. You can write about whatever you want, you can say whatever you feel. You could just write about yourself, an interesting story that you feel has moral value, or a humanitarian topic that interests you, and you think others ought to know about. You might just want to make people smile, and you are welcome to do so, with a funny anecdote or some witty insight. The idea is that this is your chance to leave your one message. So feel free to make it as dramatic, as poignant, and as heartfelt as possible.

Saying that however, there are some rules to what you can post. Although I despise too many rules, I think this blog should be about spreading what’s best about humanity, and how we can progress as a collective society. I believe that everyone single person is capable of profound insight. There will be no room for bigotry or defamation. This is not a platform for spreading hatred or ignorance. It’s not a place to share your religious convictions. There are plenty of forums available to do that on the internet, but this won’t be one of them.

I am also asking people to donate £1 or more to a charity of their choice when they send a letter. To get the ball rolling however, I’m going to waive the fee and donate some money myself on behalf of everyone who decides to send me a story. I’m unemployed at the moment, but I suspect it’ll take a while for this to catch on. All the donations I will send to a charity decided via GiveWell.

So give me your thoughts on life and humanity, and share them with the world. If you feel uncomfortable you are free to submit anonymously. It doesn’t matter how old you are, how educated you are, nor how eloquent you are. I will also help with editing submitted letters, and hope this will give me a chance to hone my editing/proofreading skills.

It is my belief that everyone in this world has something to teach you. I hope through this platform we can begin to collate the best lessons we’ve all learned in our own little lives. I hope to bring significance to every life lived. I hope to inspire others to bring out the best in themselves, and to teach others their most profound idea’s about life, love and what it means to be a human being.

So without any further introduction, welcome to my new project, My Open Letter!

Contact me at: submit@myopenletter.co.uk

You can read all the letters posted so far by going to The Archive.

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I look forward reading your letters = )