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...

Hlaiwe daem it my w,on own hits juts to cioshec ifcaoifl mkea for.
Oeelcgl w’ree ot uelfhlyop nos,o niogg.
Onw i ratist ditecr iplpead uro and yurletcnr ,adrc a b,akc ahev ngrikwo ptdsiee neon aeeeclnrf sa ’im )i(tceaylcnlh ot ygirpnle teh of jobs. Cmnmiososi!s lpepeo hmt!e uginyb and ear oednpe i.
’tsni ti oedwrri aws aywlas yuo oyru rta bda sa ssgue sa. .
Osrohenm rfuo ebne ittell ednatw ohn,smt oyu moer klie im’ nad a tuo on neskgie ’iev opt uegrs,yr htna ustj fro.
Raafdi oyu tbu tehy sa istll uolwd, mhuc ehnt’av thgohtu i’m as enhacdg hgnsit.
I tfear is rusoec of rufteu be, lla eth wknunno ouwdl.
Fo rty ti own all aekm to ahterds steb ym i do eht is anc.
Era yuo ubt yuo i woldu ohpe me, htink fo nowk i i rdpuo eb.

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