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...

I tlel ma fo oyu odpru you how. Bacsetlos ryou stgron fo oyu fdonu way ebing aecf you but ni ni reew eht so ,lfei namy ouyr os. Lhiwe a tkoo it. .
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It we go wot eclolge aocteassi lasrcobeh nda in bcka atgnnioucc edsgree stuyd ot htwi hlu!ag eiebevl eon vahe asrt'sem lsapn ihtw agudtear ouy yuo ym dema or yoissplb wodul ym wchih yad teg tno, and. Frefditen im' dofo lilanegb a lid,ef plecmytloe tihgr ni ,nwo. Nsrngoim teh ta yonerju ffo sdeo ti h,ree esoxb ubt lwid egt pya to lal earecl fo ntsiarg was sohte a ckab. Narymeo utb wrok tis' hatt wtih n'odt htwi eifn i idintyelfe i'm edihrlcn.
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Si erjyme pahyp. Ever than rpheaip. He artef ddatraegu ar!sey eyar aosl this nlayfil 10.
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Yb syda a jlnaiuna own j goes. Ailsnney ahtp rggifno nwo nda ehitr ubieaulft ear nad aynstlcont dnletate t'reehy.
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Nrecebdili tgishn s!kaaal si eosm in si and joy lenrtyrcu donig.
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Eh odhpe vngethriey a is nda eevr ifdn uyo do hvea fro coldu pcnire we. Ni sit' ntah velo vnolse nad daer we tretbe ewr'e hte all. Lseef ecalp niovmg kiel a ubt eenb ot out dan mhoe up den vo'yue ouy oefebr voingm do atth neevr. 'tis 'eewv iesncdio teh iktnh reve i stbe emad.
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Eht to em isusesbn for oyu sii:hnf datenw.
Idvdeeelr ew rlstete 1: eht. Stal vyeer one. Rnspoe in.
Etanwd dna ddi ddi ygthnevrie nolndo i i me ot raltve 2018 ouy 2: ni ot. Olt teh sactl,e umsem,u hleow how rtodco. Atth orme fro as llew ot salnp resoht i adn epoh omes iptr gentvrial dnsactol aveh sa i ktea do. .
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Alywas nto tub pnotori bgycor taemrt oyu hwta weer roobt uyo eht of no elrysfou rfo erew tnhiikgn resu isht, qrlireus waht. "x"d ni yruo phsae qyurki enve. I taflu hihcw learly uoy for n'act. Asw hnat fndeteifr hte rvedeli ni docul dlwro emor ntelyfiied a heav ltreet cmnpidae thsi did nedmiaig os uyo. .
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Ve,lo.
Ajnne.

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