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...

Fro it tshi n,wo ym to jtsu lffoaici kaem nwo ccsoieh ehilwa deam.
’rwee lfuohpeyl to oleglce ignog ns,oo.
Now i c,kab nrgylipe nneo a rcleuytrn lteyaccl)inh( to diespet our wnkiogr teh of d,cra vhae pdpeila bosj nelearcfe m’i tsirat sa cdrtei dan. Nygibu adn endpeo !emth ear i pelpeo cssomimoi!sn.
Atr royu it saw lyasaw ordweir oyu sa tins’ sa ssuge bad. .
Jsut uoy ’im dna nremhoso sikenge keil uot rfo otp no dwaten leiltt msthno, eug,rysr orfu more eenb ei’v a ahnt.
Tslli tuohgth sighnt uhmc ou,dwl but aafdir mi’ ahcdgen as yhet as you h’avetn.
Aretf e,b ruutef the i wouknnn fo all is uwldo scrueo.
Setb fo ym ryt ot i ti shdrate is hte lal wno emka od acn.
I be kwno i ,me peho udrpo of kihnt ulowd but i rea yuo ouy.

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