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...

Ihts siocech ot orf kmae own ustj ym emad ti aeiwlh nwo, filfciao.
Oggin oosn, ehflluyop rw’ee eglocle ot.
As sjob lpnyiegr kcab, ot i cidrte atstir eth rntrlyeuc enno ledippa nad peetids hvae a of our im’ t(clyeanh)ilc d,acr rcelfaene now rgnwoik. Poelpe endepo dan cos!smmnsoii igbynu i era !emht.
Uyro ’inst ti oyu dba doirerw sa alswya gseus rat asw sa. .
’iev fro oerhsmon nbee dan oruf sgneiek adnewt on klei llteti tuo jstu eorm a r,rseuyg ntah tpo m’i nohstm, ouy.
Nah’tev sa hogtthu danegch gshnit as but wod,lu iaardf tilsl mi’ hucm uyo yhte.
Dolwu wkonunn ueorcs fo retaf ,eb teh is frtuue lla i.
Fo ytr eht nwo it acn akme i all to od rdsaeht ym tesb is.
Ntkih era ouy okwn duolw btu i be i fo you ,em hepo i odrup.

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