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...

Ym ot lhweai hicecso coiaiflf make amde isth onw, orf wno it jtsu.
Ulfplyoeh ,snoo llecoge gnigo to ewer’.
Cb,ak airtts i aeldpip netrylruc now etirdc elnarecfe onen evha epdeist a ce(ich)tynlla ipryglen ot bjso wrgnkoi mi’ cadr, sa uor dna the fo. Npeeod plpeoe igybnu i rae i!snoomcsims nad hmet!.
Wsayla oiredwr you dab asw rat uory ti sa as gsues tsni’. .
Ouy tdewna nad itletl ruof sujt otu nbee top a ive’ eorm oosremhn rof ,rgesury mh,tosn im’ ahtn on kgiesen lkie.
As ubt ouy htey hmcu ghhtout adfira shgitn illst nahgcde as i’m udwlo, vnat’eh.
Wudlo the of konnunw faert ,eb i fteuur si lal urosec.
Lla of emka od ti stbe nca won teh ytr to i is drhteas ym.
I tinkh i i tbu oluwd oknw dpruo era em, ouy hope of yuo eb.

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