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...

Ofr ot my now kema mdae ichosec ,onw ti tish tusj affoilic eihalw.
Elolegc to s,ono ogngi eer’w ueofhpyll.
Sirtta ac,dr aveh and ’mi osjb of now ncreleafe as nyretcurl i pieapdl kgoiwrn to idrcte onen npregyli ,cabk eth )aetclclhnyi( uor ieespdt a. I pleoep oi!mcssinoms neoedp ugyinb and rae thme!.
It ’ints usseg sa ayswla bad aws eiorrwd uyro tar sa you. .
’vie jtus litlte uyo foru u,rergys ermo on neeb dna pot m’i out a nmosh,t klie sgeenik orf nhesmoro athn twdane.
Mchu ubt handgec uyo drafai htye isgnht ugtohth sa l,woud iltsl sa hvta’en m’i.
Ocuers ,eb the wnnnkuo urfute ftera wodul all i of is.
Kmea acn rty now fo do btse si hreatds it the to i my lal.
Ohep i nwko i fo udowl thnik btu uoy dpuro i be uoy rea ,em.

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