A letter from February 28th, 2014

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, You're 26 today, congratulations. I am not doin to hot right now but all I can think about is you. The hardship I endure today is for you. The day when I finally know what my calling is and act upon it. I hope you are still working with children, I hope Jeremy is happy, and I bet Julianna is the prettiest 14 year old on the face of the planet. And I bet you have a really hot guy in your life and if you just groaned at that sentence our prince is probably lost somewhere, but he'll find us. But there are two things that I want done by the time I'm your age and if you got sidetracked by reality, just do these for me: 1: Deliver The Letter. I know the date inside says 2013 but it needs to get to it's owner. I don't care where he is right now. 2: Please tell me you traveled. Now I know you so well that I am betting that if I didn't do it you winced and then was filled with regret and then you will try to rationalize not going with something like "But you don't understand little Jenna, I have bills (and probably college loans to pay off)!" Yea, that's not flying. Just do it. Go to Scotland. See a castle. Check out them fairy pools on the Isle of Skye. Geek out at the Sherlock Holmes museum. Recite Sonnet 116 at the Globe Theater. Geek out again at the Doctor Who museum. Do it for me and all the hard days I'm spending dreaming of the day I don't live at home anymore. Or maybe I never figured out what I want to do with my life. Maybe God has thrown a boomerang at my life and I haven't recovered (very likely). Maybe I'm living in the basement. Maybe I have no money. Maybe the entire world has been taken over by cyborg robot squirrels. Maybe I'm dead. Maybe I died in the service of my country defeating the last infantry of the cyborg robot squirrels on the lawn of the White House dying heroically by sacrificing myself to take out the last evil squirrel with their blinking evil red cyborg eyes knowing that without taking out that last squirrel that that one squirrel would immediately make 12,000 more of the demons and that it was my sacrifice alone that brought them down. Maybe the nation erects a monument in my name for my epic sacrifice. Maybe I sell that idea to Disney and Cyborg Robot Squirrels becomes the blockbuster film in 2020 that teaches not just honor and bravery, but also the power of friendship. Or maybe not...But hopefully I'll still like quotes... I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Epilogue

almost 2 years later

Dear Past Me,

God, I wish I could talk to you and actually deliver this message. You were going through so much and felt so alone. I wish I could...

Dupor fo ouy tell woh uoy i am. Trgsno os ewre fundo ni oryu ywa uoy os nyma blsoaecst het ni uyo of utb i,fel ebgin your feac. Okto lwhie a it. .
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Aarugdet ncguaciotn ym oleelcg have gersdee bkac yuo go yslbsiop thwi ystud uwold ni teg lahu!g yad ,tno ro we otw icwhh adn my uoy beeveil asnlp to ti traesm's and citsaaseo oen hitw hbolraces eadm. Olpetymlce dil,fe llbinega a in onw, tnfefider irght 'mi fdoo. Teh ohtse of to osde teg saw kacb it neyoujr obexs ayp roningms dilw gnitasr a raeelc h,eer ta ubt lla fof. Ttah yelidietfn aoymnre fnei t'is m'i twih wkor n'dot tbu wthi rlihdenc i.
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Yeermj si apyhp. Nhta evre reppiha. Ddutregaa aflinly sthi eh artef yera 01 salo ers!ya.
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Anaulinj soeg yads j a onw by. 'teeyrh inleanys onw tsotcanlny rfognig adn atlbuiefu aer hpta ltaetnde adn teirh.
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Aa!skal gdoni ntgihs nda ryultercn ni nlbrciiede oyj si si moes.
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We duocl ouy a ever nda fro epcirn etngevhyri eh hodpe do indf is ehva. Hte er'we ahnt 'ist lal tbrete raed nlevso dna ni olve ew. Lkei hoem a uoy rofebe elapc dan tuo atht tub been vinomg end erven nivgmo od uevy'o to eflse up. 'ist eadm i e'evw sebt reve knthi eniodcsi eth.
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Busiesns ni:isfh me ofr awtend ouy eht to.
Ew eth seltetr lidedreve :1. Tsal yvree noe. Sornpe in.
Did 0821 :2 in i to idd wedtan yuo nlodon dna ynirtehvge rltvea ot em i. Woh sael,ct the ,smeumu tlo ewolh dootrc. Fro eoms oeph od anpsl erom inrvtelga as evha ktae olcndtsa taht well to i itpr esroth sa i dan. .
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On innkthig twha eqrisulr etmtra btu ersu eht htis, for ouy hwta alywsa yuo rycbog of nto erew ryoesflu wree robot orontip. In ykuiqr d""x rouy shepa enve. Alutf ntc'a i chihw ouy eylarl rfo. Cluod icpedman aws eltret oyu omre igeandim erldeiv nath dwlor niietfdley so a tsih ni het eerifdfnt did aveh. .
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L,eov.
Nneja.

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