A letter from February 19th, 2021

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, You’re 18 now. How does it feel to have that freedom? Is it as scary as I thought? You’ll be okay you know. Take a breath. Growing up isn’t as scary as you may think. You can’t live life always worrying about what comes next, That’s not living. You have to live life knowing that you won’t always be able to predict your next step, and you need to make choices based on that. You can’t always be so scared of what you don’t know. Nobody knows everything. The more you don’t know, the more you have a chance to learn! Don’t be scared. Just breathe.

Epilogue

about 20 hours later

Dear Past Me,
I am 18 now!
It feels, relatively the same.
I’ve been able...

Ti wn,o my coshcie cflaiiof emad shti ujst own ot for ahwlie ekam.
To ,snoo gigno wr’ee llyouefph glleoce.
Ristta of own i ckab, eidsept reaeneflc nneo tlernuryc ot jsob veha nad icdter (cltaneiylhc) a pdaelpi uro lyinpreg as eht ’im ,card rgiknwo. Iugbyn soiinm!mssco epolep and depoen i aer !tmeh.
Wsa uyor guess as alyswa sa dba ti atr erwordi ’tsni uoy. .
Oseomnhr out ahnt klie a itetll urof mi’ rof emro grrse,yu top tjsu adn nkgeies htnoms, been no you vi’e danetw.
Adriaf sa hatevn’ htey wldou, but ouy nhstgi itlsl i’m gdnchae sa uhmc ohtthgu.
Ouersc lal eb, nknouwn is of oudlw eftuur eht i atrfe.
Ytr eth ot is can ti all htsrdae nwo bset i of meka do my.
Eb but i era i yuo uopdr i you ,em ntihk konw ehop oudlw of.