A letter from February 19th, 2021

Time Travelled — over 1 year

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...

Ym walhie ot it onw, jtsu emad tihs ochisce ilcfifao meka own ofr.
,sono wr’ee giogn to leelogc luelpfoyh.
A dan sjob apelpid ntycelrur ahve ot dicret ,cbak traits ,dcra eth lenryipg of eonn ’mi eerefcaln llta(ce)cnyih noigkwr i edepist own ruo sa. Dna odepne rea nibgyu pleeop oimniossmc!s i h!etm.
Saw ti uyro as bad orwried uoy atr isnt’ sa alwsay sugse. .
Pto ’im litetl a ’eiv ikle uot eysgru,r oyu mreo fuor th,msno nda seekgin eben no tsju rfo enwadt mheroosn anth.
Ngcdeah ghistn ’im dl,owu btu ucmh you hyte as sa lltis thguoht aafird ’ntevah.
B,e rtueuf fo lowdu i is kuownnn het uersco rtfea lla.
My anc is do hte etbs of i rty asdthre ti now amek all to.
Utb udopr tkinh uyo ,me fo i eb ouldw rea oyu nokw peoh i i.

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