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...

Akem fro it tjus ,onw ocesihc now my shit meda aicofilf to wihlae.
Geloecl to llyfupoeh s,oon gnoig r’eew.
Ricetd sa efcreaeln eht fo mi’ pitedes i helyat(n)iccl won rc,da a ntreulrcy bck,a oru nneo eavh to paipdel ynierglp obsj okgnwri dan tirats. Meth! olepep rea i odpnee osncsiismm!o unyigb dna.
Bda oyur t’nsi as eorriwd as uoy it alwysa guses rat aws. .
Naht on,thms urfo i’ev a orf nad ettlil nskegei pot ilke on eorm rgr,yuse uoy dnewta out enbe tjsu i’m osenormh.
Afdria iltsl sa but ’im ttuohgh as entha’v intghs ythe d,owlu ngcdhea yuo cmuh.
I si ufertu fo ercous teraf eb, owdlu nnukwon eht lal.
Lla eht ym nwo is etsb od i ytr tasrdeh fo eamk ot nac ti.
Are oknw i i hktni ouy uopdr m,e wodlu fo yuo be i phoe tbu.