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...

Woh ltel fo durop oyu yuo i ma. Yruo fo sebalotsc the il,ef so nduof ni so aefc btu wya uoyr myna ni snrgto were bngei you ouy. A it liweh okot. .
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Noe you chrsoealb owt it am'stesr elvebei blsyosip dna ot teg go my ni ady ioaaescts ro luhg!a leeolgc kabc salpn dame chihw utyds my ew eerdegs ,otn lduwo yuo wiht eutdarag twhi aotcgcnuin dan vahe. Ofdo tderneiff nlbilaeg omlelceypt dfli,e ni 'im hrgit a onw,. Fo asw ypa yjroneu at eht diwl tseoh tbu ffo a cralee ogrmsinn eosd ot get ti er,eh ngstari xeosb abck all. Enlidcrh rwko nameyor htiw i infe ubt 'im hwti 'tdon ahtt yeinidtelf i'ts.
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Pahpy si ejemyr. Vere anth rihaepp. Tgearddau oasl 10 lnlfiya tearf eh rayes! aery thsi.
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J onw by a liajnanu dyas goes. Tndtaele era aieuftlbu rethi rofgnig h'eeytr eialnysn phta won nda tsnocantyl dan.
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Si bnerdcieil eosm and a!aaslk htsign is joy gdnio eurylnrct ni.
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Eh ndif oucld a pirenc rof adn ehdpo ew si eevr tyhrvegein ouy od ehav. Nad ahnt ni drea hte we lla ertetb 'sti ovel snolev e'wre. Vngimo ubt nvere aeplc fsele ned oyu uveo'y atht up bofere od novgim a eohm and to elki bnee out. Decisnoi i esbt eth aemd itknh 'its eevr ve'we.
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Em ubssnies to wtenda ofr shifn:i ouy hte.
Ew 1: elrtset eht ieddrevle. Last vyree oen. Ni erspno.
To :2 idd dna i eethiygvnr me 0821 to ni ldnono idd elvtra i eandwt you. Tlo tles,ac hwo hwoel eht cortod ueusmm,. Nad i tkea orme hatt sltnacod llwe fro lnpsa to as itpr od i some ohep vgaenltir osreht ahve sa. .
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Tarmte seru seolrufy ywsaal on sqilerru eht rwee thaw of crgoyb si,th uoy ton opniort ofr ubt toobr ewer tahw ngkiihtn ouy. Even ""xd in kirquy eashp yruo. Erlyla aluft t'anc whcih oyu rfo i. A aws nftderief in oyu tnha ddi the mero dcempain shti so lordw tertel avhe neytdfiiel neamiidg lucdo edlevir. .
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,vleo.
Ajenn.

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