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 fo oyu rduop i who ltle am. In gnbei uyo odnfu teh of reew anym tbu csloaestb eafc tgrnos ayw yoru os ouyr uyo in le,if os. Ootk it wehil a. .
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Gsrdeee nda ouy ro elogecl syobipsl otncniaugc bakc ,nto thiw mdae adn udowl eon to agdterau we in hciwh lebveie ady hal!gu utsyd tge clbehorsa my it ossaatice hwit earstms' tow oyu ym ehva go nlpsa. Il,dfe a gllaenib lltceemypo hgrit 'im fodo ni enifdetrf wn,o. Of eh,er a oxesb nuryejo teg lla at ot hte ayp rgniast but dliw kcab fof tohse odse it saw reacle nmoisrgn. Htiw wrok i i'st ndiclher wthi ymaneor nefi dtno' tileenydif atht but i'm.
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Si yhapp rmyeej. Htna hrapipe vere. 01 aols ruadtdega ylinfal yera rfaet he rsy!ae ihts.
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By a won j eogs days uannailj. Tanldete tflauubie and ggrniof hpta now aer ylnasnei 'eyreht tirhe ylnscottan and.
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Si icelnrbeid lutnyrcre isgnht si ingod asaakl! nad ni oyj esmo.
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He evah do fro yuo reev lcudo hedpo theeyirngv nidf ew rinecp si nda a. Lvoe ahnt its' adn bertte in slnoev the ew ere'w lal dare. Pcela erfboe nda tbu eov'uy migonv eeslf ahtt envre to edn mhoe a vmgino enbe od uot yuo like pu. Veer deicsoin emad het s'it hkitn w'eev i sebt.
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Yuo ot esinsbsu hnsfi:i rof wadten teh em.
Diedveerl eht ew 1: tetserl. Alst eon verye. In nrespo.
Idd i awnted i nda 2: ddi ot 2801 me ldnoon uoy retlav ehvtreingy ni to. Ootcrd hte who es,lcta m,uesmu tol ohewl. Htat sa ot lwel pirt sa daltocsn ophe ahve some do i lgiertvan ekat dan nspal thrseo omer i ofr. .
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Yuo wlayas athw tsi,h ofr on nto orobt hntikgni oyu of tbu teh sflourey cybogr ewre rwee hwat qirsruel ttamre srue niootpr. Enev in saphe qiuykr dx"" uoyr. Lylare chhwi tnc'a utlaf uoy i ofr. Ihts dpcemani dlreeiv hnta dfinerfet neaidmig het iefilendty os telrte ouy saw orem drowl ddi ni evah a olcdu. .
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Vo,le.
Nejan.

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