Ahhh perfect I knew I could find one. See I’ve been looking for a long time now for the perfect box for my time capsule.

It had to be big enough for all my stuff and water proof so it would survive hindered a of years! Well…just one 100 years.

Now, I’d have to leave the mostest important things in the capsule. Things that will help the people when they find it. Hmmmm

With my box in front of me I sat with my elbows on my knees. Thinking.

“What is most importantest?”

Surly a boy my age couldn’t pick only a few treasures to put in this time box…how was am I supposed to narrow it down?

Just as I was about to give up on the whole idea my mom walked in.

“Hey honey”

“Hi…” I deadpanned

“What are you working on?”

She came over and sat beside me and my empty box….

“See, I want to make a time capsule. Fill it with important things that way in 100 years people with find it and….and…”

“And what dear?” She looks questioning.

“I don’t know….”

She smiled, she looked so very pretty. And she was so smart. Why I bet her capsule would have been filled with flowers, or perfume or maybe her hair pins. Beautiful things.

“I know….”

She stroked my hair.

“They will open it in a 100 years and find things that can help them make it another 100 years”

I looked up at her, eyebrow raised.

She laughed “well, look at it this way…what helps you every day? That’s what you should put in your box. Because maybe in 100 years some little boy like you won’t have what you have, and he needs a little help.”

I didn’t say anything,

just thought.

Getting up, she kissed my heads “you’ll choose right im sure.”

Then she walked out leaving me with my box again.

I looked around.

“Another 100 years?”

My eyes landed on my Favortie stuffed animal, Mr Bunny, and I knew….

Jumping up I picked up Mr Bunny. He has been with me through some of the worst nightmares. Some of the coldest nights. He was always waiting for me when I got home.

Maybe the little boy like me in another 100 years would need someone to wait for him to come home too……

Mr. Bunny, was given one last hug and placed in the box.

I looked around again. My eyes landed on a broken pencil on my desk…..

This pencil had helped me finish kindergarten….it has drew some of my favorite pictures.

Maybe the little boy in another 100 years would need spare pencil to help him with kindergarten or maybe even college. Maybe he would need to draw a picture for his mom….

The pencil went in…..

I found a feather next. It was from a blue jay. It had three black stripes on it. I found it one day after a loooong bike ride with my dad. I had just fallen and my knees were bloody and I couldn’t stop crying. I looked down from the bench my dad had sat me on and there was the feather.

At the time it was the most beautiful thing in the woooorld. Maybe even prettier then mommy.

Maybe in another 100 years, the Lilly boy would need to be reminded to be brave. That not all bad things are bad. And you have to hurt a little to get to the good things.

The feather was placed in the box…..

One more thing…the boy needed one more thing….I looked around….

My eyes land on my new note book I had gotten for my Birthday.

I picked it up and scrolled through the pages. Some of my drawings were here and there. But most of the pages were empty…

What if the boy in another 100 years needed to remember things? Important things….things that would help the boy in another 200 years…..?

I carefully placed the book into the capsule.

I closed the box

Then with my blue crayon, I wrote on top

FOR THE BOY IN ANOTHER 100 YEARS.

May this boy never be alone

Never stop trying to learn and be a better person.

never forget the beauty in the pain.

And always remember to help those who come next….