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 ihst daem ioccshe jtsu it ifliocaf ym to keam w,no nwo aweilh.
,oons lyeuhlofp ggino ewe’r to ecolleg.
I nnoe rienypgl as rstati seetipd aevh pilapde ehi)lnlccyt(a eth jobs wnrkiog a nad cirtde to onw fo eneelrcfa nuerctlyr c,dra i’m bak,c rou. Are adn mthe! ungiyb i pondee people comsisns!iom.
Rridowe royu it as rta usesg as aws abd uyo wlaasy ntis’. .
A more tujs tpo eksengi ilek sryrue,g on been v’ei ,otnhms orfu dan tou adtnew eronosmh hnta ’im uoy eltilt rfo.
Sa i’m yteh uoy as gtnhsi ilstl btu wolud, teah’nv utothhg deahncg fdarai cumh.
B,e is tefar crseuo lla uodwl uwnnkno of teurfu i the.
Now ryt maek do setb to ti of hte is nac all dehtasr ym i.
M,e intkh rea i hpoe btu pudro woudl fo yuo i be know i uyo.

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