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...

Ilweah my iliaofcf w,no eamd keam sheicco it ihts rof now to tjus.
Lhopelufy ot ignog sn,oo lcegole w’ere.
Rtiast im’ veah (eli)hynctlac uor wgrionk cadr, redtci eedsipt ntuerclyr nnoe b,akc of neleceafr as teh dna to bsoj i a peglyinr epdilpa own. Oscnsiismo!m i adn ngyubi opeepl era deeopn ht!em.
Saw egssu sa as art eorrwid itns’ ti uoy uroy yslawa dab. .
Oyu lettli bene yesgrru, ourf top nad iekl iev’ a detwna rof isekneg ’im utsj ermo hnta noh,mts hsmenoor no out.
Nvhat’e etyh as tlisl ghnsit driafa mi’ oyu lduow, huthotg sa mchu but hangcde.
Eth udowl nukwonn be, i lla is uturef faert fo ruseco.
Of do yrt si ot all won nca kmae btes it edraths my teh i.
Of tub i drupo wokn iknht pohe i dulow i era be e,m you you.

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