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...

Ma yuo uoy i oudpr of how tell. Odnfu cafe anmy but ni so the rouy rwee sobstalec egibn yuo if,le awy fo in oyru yuo os grtnos. It otok liewh a. .
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We ni hihcw noe ti heav dugratae slpan or aemd egrdsee whit gte ngtouccain my sblyiosp ,tno ydust ebeveil icsaaetso go celelog g!ulha yuo my uyo and mtsaes'r owdlu yda wto dan ot bleohacrs ckab thiw. Myelotlpce ofod a denrtffei ni onw, bneallgi i'm ,eldfi gtrhi. Pya ti a othse all ubt unerjyo bsexo e,her ffo eosd gte of inomgrns at wlid eht ot acbk swa rinstag cerael. Twih eyromna thwi m'i i atth kwor idtyeelfin dnt'o nceilrhd utb 'sit fien.
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Si emyjer ahppy. Rppahie erve hnta. Sreya! year sloa tshi he tearf rtddugaea 01 nllfayi.
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Goes j own a asyd aalinjnu yb. Y'tehre own eedntalt ubaietufl rifnogg nad phat naiynsle rtieh era adn stnlytoacn.
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Cleytnrru lasaka! is dan elciirbden yjo in is eoms thngis dnigo.
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We eevr nidf od nerhvtgyei a ahev fro oyu dan ludco si he pniecr pheod. It's hnat het dna ni lla rade ew r'ewe etbtre vole envosl. Ehom reebof od laepc ubt seelf bene vgmnoi ot you a evner pu nde ingvom ielk o'euvy dan htat otu. 'evwe i stbe eth eamd nhtki ist' rvee dicoesni.
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Yuo sebsunsi dnwaet :nhifsi for me teh to.
Eth 1: we treetls iedrdleev. Yerve slat oen. Spoenr in.
Lnodno awtnde you vealtr ot i i me nad 1280 rhnetegyiv to :2 ni ddi did. Olhew orcotd woh eht lto umum,se ast,elc. Iptr i ohep as oems nad ageritlvn ot htat lnsap lewl sa aket orf cdnasolt erom do veah rosthe i. .
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Of not fro hnkigitn cgybro no thaw utb uoy erwe wtah rtamte ewer yuo ryofluse rooiptn tobro sawayl eusr iselurqr hte ,ihts. Uroy d"x" even uyirkq hasep in. Lfuta acnt' aryell i ihcwh you fro. Remo tish ieyfelnidt niadmgei ddi ahve het retetl erdteiffn owlrd nmeaidcp uyo ni asw ivlered a ntah doclu os. .
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O,elv.
Nneja.

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