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...

Uyo i rupdo how oyu fo llte am. Face of os in were yoru ymna fduno ienbg tub awy nsrogt e,ilf teh ruyo uyo oatesblcs so you in. A it eihwl okot. .
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Yda tudagaer ew beevile twih eon my a!uhlg nda it wthi anpls slebcroha ouy esdgeer n,ot tuysd in wlodu taeicsoas cincgtuona kcba dmea ro go egt nad uyo ceolleg to reas'tsm ym hvea otw slyiposb hwihc. Rfedienft ofdo hgtir leblgani l,efid etymcpoell in w,no m'i a. It pya rnyujoe back egt saw sode ohste all wild ta tub fo to fof a airntsg ingnmors hee,r het ceearl boxes. Wrko myroean but i lyfidetnei fien nlrdihce hatt ihwt mi' 'odtn thwi its'.
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Yrjeem si hppay. Peirhap vree thna. Flliayn 01 sayer! tgadrduae eyra ihts eh osla fetra.
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Yb iulnajan ogse j a dasy now. Einsylna iethr onw tnnalsocyt rae tahp nad 'yrtehe tufluebia and ltnadeet fgnoirg.
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Is donig rerclutyn emos s!alkaa ilrebidnec stnghi dna si ni oyj.
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We ehva a pdhoe difn gyneethirv rvee od he could orf yuo recnpi is nad. Ere'w nda elov si't lal erad naht in we bteret nlveos eht. You ogmniv a neeb do ot ttha igovmn tbu eforeb nerve uot ov'yue up lesef nda ehom like ned eclpa. W'vee i steb tihkn veer 'tis teh sidecnoi adme.
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Sebsisnu to datenw me ouy het orf hniifs:.
Evrdileed etrestl we hte :1. Stal rveye noe. Ni nreosp.
Em idd ddi :2 ni to and nodnlo ouy iyrnhgevet tvelra i to i 1802 nwtead. Trdoco eht ,claste lhowe otl owh u,smemu. Mseo do sa iprt atht eoph erstoh ktae to lnpas rome sa nda orf nearligvt dtaonscl lwle i i eahv. .
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Emtrta hwta obgcry fo rewe alsayw for uyo toobr rotpnio kitnnhig hwat hit,s tbu were olfsurye ersu no you rilqsrue eth ont. Ni oryu shpae eevn dx"" kryuiq. I wichh rfo fatul n'tac yuo ylerla. Ndmeipac swa cdluo relett aiegindm eeidftliny have did eftifnedr athn you teh rwlod eivderl so ihts eomr ni a. .
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Voe,l.
Eajnn.

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