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...

Fro ti isth sutj wn,o oshciec now aekm my ot iaifoflc edma ewilah.
Ot clelego on,so ee’rw igogn hpfeoluyl.
Own akbc, iwognrk istatr dna ’im sboj onne to flareneec d,acr rou uylnrcter dapiple cdtrie a ehav i tipeesd sa het of nriplyeg lltaey)hc(nic. Pepeol e!mht simiocmnsso! nad dnoepe yugibn are i.
T’ins sa ouyr rta wsa bda uoy it lwyasa as erdwroi sesgu. .
Ofru keli a sjut ms,tonh mero ouy ittell geru,rsy bene nhseromo ksengei on ’im otp ednatw otu and fro atnh ei’v.
As hsgint uhcm eyht ath’env dcanehg as ubt i’m oughtth stlil ouy aaifdr uw,lod.
Is rfaet nkownun i eht be, lla of uwdol tufure orcues.
Fo rty ym is wno ti lla nca tebs do eth mkae i ot hratdes.
Rea i knith eb i rpoud uoy tbu ,em i fo ouy dluwo ohpe know.

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