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...

Ot rof siht ,won checios my aemd akem ustj it nwo hiweal acoliiff.
Iggon ’eerw eolelcg lofphyleu ,nsoo to.
Eeealfnrc own i hiecc(na)llyt ac,rd sa ipdpela a ot c,kba itseedp nad atrtsi of none eth ruo nyeculrtr wirnokg bsoj im’ prilynge aevh dtiecr. I !emth ocms!smisnoi era doepen olppee dna gubyni.
Rat ’tisn uyo ti yruo as abd as was sseug ysaalw ordewri. .
Lttile meoshnor gsneiek emor pot jstu uofr uot eikl a m’i t,hsmon uyo athn enbe no rfo adn antewd gru,sery e’iv.
Dgaenhc you as mi’ as dwl,uo he’atvn ehty chum ilstl gnitsh btu adifra hghottu.
Is ,eb lal eth wdluo fo i uefrut raeft uorces nowunnk.
Do tseb anc ytr i my erhatds all won si of the ot ti kmea.
I ouwdl orupd eb i wnko m,e of i oyu tbu hpoe aer oyu nkhit.

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