Letter to my 10-year-old self

"One day you will know that the world is a beautiful place to be and that you are so loved." A 10 year-old holds a letter to the light, trying to read the handwritten scrawl that looks so familiar. At the bottom of the lined page, finished with a confident flourish, is a similarly familiar signature. The realisation comes, with a shock - it's a letter from the child's future self. What does it say? If you could write a letter to your childhood self, would it be a handbook of survival, a missive