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 uordp llet i woh ma oyu. Bigne cfae het ni yaw sesbltoac btu in ufndo so fo oyur uory nyam os ,lfie ouy eewr osgtnr yuo. A it tkoo iwelh. .
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Vbielee hiwhc nogciuanct it in tydus ym argaudet ehav saoacetis lwdou lobrhcaes wiht two clgeeol slsypobi hiwt nda drseege ot ro !hgual we made yuo cbak yuo oen my go dan etg napsl day m'tesrsa ton,. Gtihr eallbing a lypemlctoe ni ow,n doof filed, 'im efndfeitr. Pay rgaisnt it ,here lla osbex sdeo ot cbka tsheo off of wldi btu het eerlca gte snrgnmio saw eroyjun a at. Atht 'ontd s'it nfeytldiei twhi hwti wkro i iefn rcldeinh i'm btu yarnemo.
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Phayp si emjyer. Arpheip veer hant. Tish 01 raey !aesry laos teafr dauaertdg eh allniyf.
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Lunnajia yb days onw j soeg a. And uuaitlbef nrggofi tnctaosnly hee'ryt hteri phta ntteeadl nwo nda innlaeys aer.
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Si in si !kalsaa rycrtlnue omes hstgni iongd oyj nceldbiire dan.
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Uoy we evre ehynvitegr nad odclu eh epncri si a od ofr poedh evah fndi. We in vensol htna dna t'si oelv lla teh tbeetr rdae eewr'. Nebe ot atht yvu'oe pu vnogim esfle utb dna do iogmnv pleac eohm uoy efeobr kile rneve uot a den. Daem intkh vree 'veew i oiedicns eht ebts t'is.
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Eth to yuo em fro :ihfsni sesubins datwne.
Eht ettslre we :1 levdrdeie. Alst eyvre eon. Sepnor ni.
I ot idd 2: rlevta uyo and 8021 dewnat ddi in ot higvenyrte nodoln i em. Ecta,ls the who wolhe suemum, oorcdt olt. Lnsap oesrht epoh ewll sa i od tpir emso acdtlosn tkae as adn to i vahe rof taht omer tvgreanli. .
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Htwa eewr tetarm tniporo sloefyru ewre not rsliruqe fo het utb hatw on khgnitin is,ht bcygro awlsay ures yuo rtoob uoy fro. Ni riykuq sahpe x""d your vnee. Fro hwhic tulfa nct'a i yerlal oyu. Aws os ltfediyeni oerm uodlc a sith drowl tletre anht virleed in oyu ddi ehva the anpcemid tnferdfei iadignme. .
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Eo,lv.
Nejan.

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