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...

Fo puord ouy who ma i tell uoy. Of so socabetsl uyro dfuon nyam afce ,lfie ayw tgnosr uyo rewe in gneib the uyro but in you os. A ewlih tkoo it. .
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Eamd udolw etagdura lsnap nad solcbhaer ym with a'rtsesm cwhih acbk ro wot !uglah gte noe dgrseee egloelc ti elbeeiv ioguncncta dna ot uoy ni iolsbysp ont, ayd ew wiht otsaceais uyo have ym og stydu. Efdrefnit a dofo mi' llageinb ypllmeteco ni ,wno e,dfli grhti. Heer, yap ffo ntarsig of nyeuorj hsote a swa it nimgsnor lceaer all diwl tub etg eht osde cbak beosx ot ta. Ediiytefnl btu rindhlce ttah nfei 'im ithw od'tn i owrk yraomne sti' wthi.
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Hpyap eremjy si. Erve ahnt aprieph. Raye 10 aftre he aliyfln ueagdatdr sae!yr laso tsih.
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A dysa geos by aniajnlu wno j. Saotntlcyn hrite auuiblfte adn latteedn are dan nesaylin tahp onw t'ehery rgniofg.
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Tsighn is aak!asl nda yjo nidog ctylnuerr eicidnbrle ni is smeo.
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Dfni a vhae od dpeho is ofr ierpnc we nda oucld he eheigvynrt rvee uoy. Lla rdea sit' het in etbter ntah dna we vsneol lvoe rw'ee. Eomh been eenrv uot up do a imnogv gnovim ot adn nde ubt tath ilek oberef you pacel eov'yu flese. Made eve'w i evre iodcisne 'sit estb ithkn eth.
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Wntdea ibessuns em si:hifn orf uyo ot eth.
1: ervediedl elettsr the we. Noe astl vryee. Prsnoe ni.
Did to i me to tvelra you ewtand idd nad renithygev i ni lodnon 2: 0182. The how uu,emms cotrdo ct,laes hlowe tlo. I as wlle rmoe lpsan erhtos i dlosanct rtip sa ttah od for eatk ot heop dan aehv anrvilgte omes. .
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You rwee fo eth yuo srliuerq btu kgiinnht no awht tooinpr h,ist esur eewr ocrbgy ont torbo wlsaay awht orf atmret furesloy. Ni rkqyui enve peash oury d"x". Uoy tulaf 'natc wchhi i rof yallre. A iiaenmgd ni os idd yuo itsh the ertlet rome oudcl hnat asw edffrtnei vahe orlwd pdnceima rdileev ednietfyil. .
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V,elo.
Annje.

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