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...

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Giogn re’ew ,snoo cgeleol pfyluolhe ot.
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Tra sa sa ’stni uryo uyo ti aws redrwio gusse waysal dab. .
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Freta hte si i ,be lla lodwu uufetr srecuo fo nonwnuk.
Tsdreah fo acn try is teh meka to my od ebst it lal i own.
Be e,m orudp nkow owdul i uoy uoy hpoe of ikhnt are i i tub.