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...

Ofcafili amde ti amek no,w fro my hsit iscohce ailhwe jsut onw to.
Oegelcl n,oso to yuplfohle eew’r ginog.
Nda diseept own dacr, edappil bsoj ruo i erlrntyuc lpiyegnr m’i eencelfar tdecri het to a none aevh as ogrwkin ihtl(n)cceayl of ,bkac irtats. Aer bguiyn t!hem edopen snomimcs!iso i oleppe adn.
Ylaasw was sa sa wrdoire yuo dba uyor art sesug it sn’it. .
Uoy dan jtus fro eben etiltl uot a no uorf rmoe vei’ hnta mohensor eilk dtaewn ,ntmsoh rre,gusy ’mi gkeensi otp.
Anecghd as i’m eyht ouy tilsl gsinht sa hcum doluw, ubt tohthgu hae’tnv faardi.
Hte i fo uknnonw utfure uoecsr si lla ,eb arfte luodw.
Drshate si ti ot lal onw tebs of hte i tyr cna do kaem my.
Oyu hoep wuodl tnhki tbu i i rea em, yuo opurd of i be onkw.

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