Dear Future Aadya,
If you are reading this in 2036, it means something greater than success has already occurred – transformation. In 2026, I am still only in the beginning of a story no one else can yet recognize. I sit in a classroom filled with noise but not applause, opinions but not understanding, comparison but not recognition. I have certificates, but not a single award – yet that does not make me smaller. It only means my victories are still in transit.
The world around me cannot imagine the size of my dreams, but dreams were never designed to fit inside classrooms. And so, I write this not to glorify who you became, but to honor the girl, who believed before there was proof. Because greatness rarely announces itself at the start - it whispers.
Before I speak of you – accomplished and unforgettable – I must speak of me, the beginning. I do not stand out here, not yet in a room full of voices that mock and misunderstand. I am quiet but one day, my future self will stand before the world – and when she does, the applause will be loud enough to drown every doubt ever spoken in this room.
By 2036, I hope you have completed your MBBS at AIIMS Delhi and pursed your MO at Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin where science and humanity walk hand in hand. I imagine you studying psychiatry and neuroscience not merely to diagnose illness, but to understand minds – their trauma, their chemistry, their metaphors.
Because to you, the brain was never just neurons and synapses; it was poetry, philosophy, memory and emotions. The world expected you to heal bodies, you chose to heal souls. I hope literature never left you behind. Even when research papers crowded your desk, I hope poems crowded your heart. Because the world needs scientists who can feel and poets who can question. now I imagine you yet another threshold – accepted into a PhD program at Oxford University, London. while conducting research at the Broad Institute, one of the world’s greatest medical research centers. Perhaps your papers shift society’s understanding of mental health, proving that healing is equal parts. Science and empathy.