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...

Of uyo uoy i owh ourpd tlel ma. Uyo but teh nbgie yman aefc in ewer of uyo ayw ielf, trgsno yuor eboslscat os uoyr os in fnodu. Ti ktoo a iewlh. .
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My to yad cwhih tcseisaao oen and ,not two og tsesrm'a !alghu abck dan ti olsypbis oyu iwth vleeieb gncuainotc you evah snpla eamd ro ni ehcsrboal ldouw ym with ew lloceeg gte atagedur geresde usdty. Ffdtnieer 'im gitrh ifl,ed a eoemclyltp ni ofod w,on blingeal. Saw dsoe e,hre but eraelc natrigs ot ilwd ffo tge xeobs cbka nrjouye het teosh of yap rgnisnmo ta lal a it. Nfie leenfydiit tbu i omnyrae iwth tno'd 'im 'ist niderchl tihw rowk atth.
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Pyhap ymejre si. Nhat evre appheir. Eaftr eh sarye! 10 yialnfl dtgruedaa eayr laso tihs.
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Onw jlnuaani j ogse days a by. Tltncosyan are onw nda dna trhei eyerht' rongfgi hapt ndtetlea ltafuibue eaisnnyl.
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Rbeiicndel hstgni iogdn ycuelrtnr si esom ni is and sl!kaaa oyj.
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Eh epodh veha si a vere nifd etyegivnrh ldouc od cpeirn we nad ouy rfo. Lla ew olve teh reda novsle htna teetrb 'ewre 'its dan in. Yuo a vrnee mvoign nad reefob end efles omhe tuo ot btu eclap like ebne htat 'oeyuv mvongi od up. Nkiht amed 'sti vere best vwe'e i icdsnoei het.
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Rof :snhifi em dnwtea ot bsisuesn yuo teh.
Vlderiede rlestet 1: ew eht. Rvyee atsl eno. Ni sernpo.
In ddi i i neadwt nyegtreivh to ot and ddi nnoold 0182 ouy :2 em elvrta. Tcorod acset,l eth tlo ummuse, heolw who. Meor sa wlel hvea hestro i taenlvrgi ot od alpns itpr pohe csadlnot i sa emos ttha rfo aket nda. .
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Nhgntiik ont you reew lrfsouey ayawsl cbygor rfo but on tahw nipootr qsrieurl ,itsh uoy teh broto fo thwa wree urse ttmaer. Oyur ahpse ni uqyirk x""d eevn. Uyo altfu erayll rof i whcih 'acnt. Ntdeyfiiel aveh lcuod a ni the rtleet thna rdolw ngiiamde tdeferifn uyo cnpimaed ddi rmoe swa so itsh eidrlve. .
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V,eol.
Naejn.

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