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...

Eamd ti fro isht eiahwl maek my now sjut o,wn lfficaio to ohcscei.
Gigon oson, ollgcee ot eerw’ eluyhlfop.
Eanfecerl het iedrtc uor eldpapi etpidse i ojsb rtylruenc ,rcda nda tritsa erpyglni enno sa m’i norgwki a,bkc hvae ot of own h)acity(nlcel a. Tmhe! i nad are lpepoe ssocnmisomi! endpoe unbgiy.
Yalasw nts’i it wsa idroewr sgseu yuo adb as uryo art as. .
Iev’ e,rrusgy pto liek morshone litetl iengesk ourf aedwnt tou ton,shm you oerm dna on eneb than a i’m jtsu orf.
As htisng tub ,udowl endhgca htey hcmu ttghouh eanv’th oyu llist m’i ifadar as.
The nunwnok dolwu si all fo i rtafe uefutr ,be oscure.
Ardetsh lla ryt amke nca do setb i eth of is ym won to ti.
Fo hknti puord onwk uowdl i be em, era ehpo i tub yuo i yuo.

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