A letter from February 19th, 2021

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, You’re 18 now. How does it feel to have that freedom? Is it as scary as I thought? You’ll be okay you know. Take a breath. Growing up isn’t as scary as you may think. You can’t live life always worrying about what comes next, That’s not living. You have to live life knowing that you won’t always be able to predict your next step, and you need to make choices based on that. You can’t always be so scared of what you don’t know. Nobody knows everything. The more you don’t know, the more you have a chance to learn! Don’t be scared. Just breathe.

Epilogue

about 20 hours later

Dear Past Me,
I am 18 now!
It feels, relatively the same.
I’ve been able...

Mdea orf afoilfic nw,o this my kaem wno ot ti lihaew ecsihoc sutj.
Elcgloe ’eerw to oso,n oyhllpuef oggni.
Sa (cyctln)aehil rsitat uor i kwngoir rtucrleny kbac, fo ’mi nneo now lreecaenf a jbso aplpied hvae ipesdet to ericdt r,dac and het yprilneg. !hetm sscosoimmn!i odpeen and are eoelpp uyngib i.
Uyo ns’ti ryuo rroeiwd bda sgeus as sa swa ti rta wsayal. .
Er,usyrg tujs tosh,nm gieekns im’ on uto for msoehonr a eiv’ and eorm than little ufro opt bnee elki daetwn you.
Entva’h hnisgt uoy ndegcah guohhtt m’i afaird ludwo, they sa sa iltls ubt ucmh.
Of i feart all feuutr ukwonnn het is duolw ecuosr ,eb.
Hte resdath do i all ot it acn ryt now fo bste ym aekm si.
I konw ithnk eb of ropdu i i but epoh ouy are me, uyo udolw.

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