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...

It ,own cohisec ot iaoffilc lhiaew ekma hits stuj ym onw rof maed.
Ot eer’w lyhpfeuol osno, igong lgeeloc.
Tedicr cafneleer rginwko sa vaeh enligpry m’i i hte ctlialc(hyn)e a ca,dr jobs and own back, ritsat onen utnyrlerc ruo ot deiestp of epadipl. M!eht dna rae i oeppel niubyg epnode mocisminsso!.
Ti usesg atr aws adb as uyo snit’ as ouyr oerwrdi lasywa. .
Rfo esru,ygr urof and tsuj etwdna mno,sth ’im neksige tnah oehmsorn a ’vie kile on otu tpo oyu mreo neeb telitl.
Sa uoy wuold, hea’tvn ythe ’im illst tbu gsnthi as cumh guhthto iaardf gacednh.
Eth teufru ,eb curoes fo unonkwn eftar si lal wldou i.
Eht eadrhts lal my nac ot kema of wno i it tseb ryt do is.
I era ihtkn uolwd epho ,me you i btu uyo nkow udorp be i of.