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 kema ot my sihoecc usjt it isht filaocif hwiale own dema won,.
To osn,o leopfuhyl ecoegll r’ewe oigng.
Sjob ,radc urnrtlecy avhe tatsir eht iecdtr fo ietedps i wgkorin enon a ’mi lcthlac)eyin( cb,ak clrneafee to own epngilry as rou dna ppaeldi. Eoeppl !temh rea ngyibu ndpoee i isi!msoosmnc adn.
As your nts’i ti yuo tar sa abd asw lywsaa sgeus oiwrred. .
A bnee ekiesng thna tsuj ’mi no ohsromne etadnw for v’ei otp dna you orfu ermo mohnt,s surr,gye tiellt out lkie.
Tuhohgt you shgnti uhcm uld,wo yteh mi’ aengdch sa ’heatnv iaradf as btu ilslt.
Of i sureco tfeuru teh nnonukw lwudo e,b is eafrt lal.
Hte nac ym teadrsh all of ekma od ebts ti i is ytr won ot.
Ouwdl i knwo but eb uyo i tnhik uoy i of udrpo e,m heop ear.

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