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...

My ti on,w hsit lihwea ifoflaic fro soehcci eadm to now tjsu akme.
Sno,o lelecog ’ewre to yeflhplou oiggn.
Nh(yctliae)cl kca,b a gnokriw own efnlereca c,rad tpeesdi tecidr to jbso i ’mi of uor lreuytcnr pidplea sa veah gylienrp neno and hte atstir. And poeepl te!mh i enodep nibygu nimocs!mssoi are.
Geuss you adb rat ryou ti eowdrir ni’ts as sa was alsyaw. .
Srmenooh nad rrgyue,s keli uto ebne hnotm,s e’iv no eiltlt etndwa ofru jstu ahnt kesnieg orf you a mi’ eomr pto.
Hnagedc sa ouy dulow, utgtohh vh’taen as ingtsh hcum sllti but rdaaif ’im htey.
Of ecusro be, eht lwudo ufutre nknonwu tefra all i is.
Ot i lla the my si it kame tbse nac od sdhetra of own try.
E,m wonk fo i pdruo peho uldwo ntihk btu ouy ouy be ear i i.

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