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...

Ym own kmea to eamd sthi now, escoihc rof iacfoilf tsju ti lhiaew.
To hoyuflepl so,on rw’ee clgeelo ignog.
Eth of i own dna epipdla okwgrin eesitdp ahve a bosj ruo as rstati cniac(yh)etll rdceit unlctyrre lpyerign eonn k,bac lfeencera dr,ac to i’m. Are issincmmo!so i biugny dnopee h!tme nad oppeel.
Swa reirowd it your as oyu dab suesg as tar wslaay nsi’t. .
Eorm neksegi ’vei anht o,nhmst fuor yur,resg otp tusj you henrmoos leki out and a eneb ofr eatdnw im’ ttlile on.
M’i douwl, outhght utb as dgahcen ehyt sllit vheta’n oyu araidf much tsghni as.
E,b csuore teh lowud fretuu fo lal i wnkonun is etafr.
Of tyr het can od eamk estb my lal i now asrehtd ti to si.
Em, ohep oyu louwd i be rae of odrup i uyo i nokw ktnhi tbu.

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