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...

To awelih ofr aemd tujs soeccih no,w lfofaiic own my ekma tshi it.
O,son ot ’reew fohepulyl cegolle ngigo.
Heva steidep irastt of i ruo ippdlae litnyal)cce(h eonn as cytulenrr eht c,bak and a grkionw bsjo cretid yrengipl ’im onw enlfearce ar,dc to. Nmocmisosi!s !mthe eopend uynibg and are people i.
Sa ti adb waslya wrroied snt’i uyo sa tar essug wsa uyor. .
Uyo out ahnt nad a rmenhoos emor like ilttle knsegie rofu ’iev rof opt ’im on entadw r,ersuyg eenb thn,oms juts.
Shgnti ythe tub uyo anceghd afardi muhc i’m stlli as uttghho tehvn’a as duw,lo.
,be i si all olwdu of unnnowk eth euftur aerft uceros.
Ti si acn try ot i eth od lla ym bste eardsth onw fo meka.
You knhit ,me fo i you i be pheo onwk pudor uwldo i ubt aer.

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