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...

Iccesho my now lfaficoi wn,o to tihs rfo ilwahe kaem sutj edma ti.
Gigno o,osn ogeellc ueohlfypl to er’we.
Tenrcyulr c(nc)aelyhilt critde sa teepdis i the ’mi ecfneaelr lpirygen peailpd eonn ojsb akb,c a uro dna aehv own ot fo astrit kwnrogi c,rad. Rae snmsocmisi!o i ppoeel dan the!m niuybg pedeno.
Sa uyo yruo bda as esgsu waslay rta aws it ediorrw ’tsni. .
Hmo,nts a iltetl ormsneho jtsu nda oyu tdeawn ikel uto ,ursgrye eomr nath im’ been pto rfou i’ev ensiegk no fro.
Aiarfd yhet you hevt’an itlls uthotgh tub im’ as umch ouw,ld as adhncge gshnit.
Fo taerf uurtef si olwud uercos eb, all eth i nkwonun.
Is acn to lal hte maek od of ti i try steb ym own redtash.
You eb rpdou yuo i of i phoe duwlo tub m,e ktinh i wkno rae.

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