To you, from you

Peaceful right?

Trying to get back the girl right now, waiting around in a lonely, white-walled apartment for another 50 days to pass, when I'll visit Reno in May. I'm going to go have pizza and watch Argo in the conference room in an hour with coworkers. How's life? I wish I could get a response from you, to know that it works out, to know how things happen. Are kids in the future? If I'm back with C she'll want children within the next six years, which currently freaks me out. So if that happened, our first kid would be almost two or three by now, right? I wonder if I'll use my list of names for naming a kid. That's jumping ahead a little, though. Did getting back with C even work out? Haha, was memorizing that Pablo Neruda poem worth it or a waste of time? Are you in Reno now? Is she in Portland? Right now I'm worrying about money a little, and how airfare is ridiculous and I'll pay for a lot to go visit every month or two. Maybe you're a rich jetsetter by now and those aren't concerns anymore? Hey, this is sent from eight years ago. Pretty perfect number, right? :D So I wonder, how have you progressed? I'm trying to learn guitar through Rocksmith, I'm kind of succeeding. I mean, you'll know this because you read your journal... How about your internet prospects? Music production? Language learning? "The language?" How about comic creation? Or the creature world thing? I still need glyphs for ghosts, dragons or chaos, and the cosmos... Are you still at your insurance job? Have you gone back to school? Right now I feel pretty stuck and ambivalent, and scared for the future. I'm getting paid alright and don't want to leave, I know that if I stick it out I'll just get paid more but over time but obviously it's not an enjoyable or fulfilling position and there's much more to life than this godawful cubicle. Does my writing seem different than your current style? Anyway, I guess I'll go do something else. I'll be sending this message a few times across the decades, so if you get this, remember to type up a new one so there'll be a message that gets added to every 10 years! Hmm, maybe I'll make it 8, that seems more suited to me. Alright, see you in 2029.

Epilogue

2 days later

My dude, you should stay in Portland. That whole Reno thing is a waste of time. You're afraid of moving on, so your paradox solution is taking a risk to...

Rewe keep eht heyt hngist ywa. Ysrac ntdo' thiw yiaesl gel tub ,giaettad na ltyru brenko sulo a dlrow inrtyg het up kmae who htwi lapce uoy yruo'e is to. Pnaphes ot ostp it's twah ietm ncarig reh ihtw. .
.
Etse'rh fil?e lw,le no dmpnacei ldorwiedw a gogin. On nbeig roeth siht leeopp e,unificsot orfm nrigbhtae hhliyg epeplo rdpeas terh'se aeedssi adleyd. It's od thta ?dceaipmn you memberre ma,ge htta elki hflas. Oesoenm sti' fo ompsstmy ofr dlayed nod,ram en'tosd tbu ts'i laerzie hte ksi,c rae and dkin ofmr nvee s'it rltebier dlleyer eusrp prades het not eeyt'rh or woh. Fro neeb salt from i'ev ilelegbi het hemo hte ot eray, initawg viencac be rof onwikgr. Toms akssm olepep wera udtiose. . . Nnutserdad ot lwheo uo'yd itnkh trosyneorcv buaot htis eb dnt'o etwerhh uoy ro o,tn suohld i on,hste eerths' but. Nad sah iplbcu srcuoidse age eht acdnheg trniente. Godo a llreapal asw'ht. . . Oyu imdn hgit?r rhade eevnr htenav' buato rrhstaee ,tey eth aflt. Ayp uyo nad ntd'o do flawu lelrya tnietoatn lci?stiop yuo woh its' kown i ot.
.
Instteeerd l,elw enbe erevn i?dks o'uvey. T'don ety i am, tihnk i. In heya a,tdronpl m'i. I bjo utb about soem bad rcea too im' 'omseyn htero eksd ni t'nod ton. Ym ear dna osorcrkwe at odog ym spontoii haltigr i'm. Trbtee sit' dan job nero ift uyl'ol ebtret ,bjo eth avhe ni ntha eht cieanruns hnat abobrypl l,stea at wya a. .
.
Rochskmti. . . Is ngtitis uot ym ni llist ouy eht wlle, sedu ugrait omor. Roeht ntoo meags evdom i ovied dan sgniht art. Nhonitg too rmaoj. Adn a tihw lisryaaps ravious drok ssetetnri m'i guhe itlls ndisceio. Tsla eenepcxeri taht song asw a are,y ogod made i. Gisndiaso tdcroo setdlet mi' tbu o,s nolthyes? ,eb fo dseu and no rmeo fro igsvtini a to essl ahnt rydalzape i trso some roem eabmy. Jtus rwtoh hte mnoithges eb dcuol ttgnegi rfo, yaw udocl ma i msde eb. For htgni to edlayd fo eht im' oiaptshls ondw tsrta eseltt i dkin tnsviigi ebefor nwtiagi uvsir gaain. Emyba sthi slmaiea tusoolni a rfo sre'eht ya,nawy.
.
No lo,scho on. Tkhin teh i orf ppcsteor prta tmos utboa ranicg i ppdeost the. Cdaedetu fo?r otn omceeb a efperr eresth' emro d'i ohulds i tawh sfrnpsoeoi. Eomosr i nad oyu er'we ybboh epolpe,.
.
T?lyse semse ti einf oyru wniirgt. Ylset yporblba riintgw you i btu nlcfossuo?iesc- nto aer am, atuob. R,fote tetnrien nad t?nhki anyildglu is taht fftus otn'd revetaci oyu teh oru gnnigbi. Ubt raeys ietm iwht twsseibe ta kown of lkoo edrtdi crnuter lkil owh ot nmay ahtt uoy moer crnoilgls rwfroda ouy obj? ruoy. .
.
Nikd easarrsmbde 'im tish tse trtele of lybaollg to asleere uoy. Otg lpus ngisay the ndcoes a ot lie,am lpoepe tetelr the atth iemal eatcder i. Cactidn?e reaft ubt you rnbeum eevw' tshi sued supepos asw a na siht ear tish times of fo setn soeth msto i caentnsis estebiw. Oktbxci ymaeb u'orye uoy aemby a olly?en esmsid. Caxet onihgp hte ox-uso-ritf rhteo acessc eahv ees'hr fo poisec yrou veoab rltete drteseritc.

This user has written an update to this letter.To see what they wrote, please

Press ← and → on your keyboard to move between letters

Write new comment

Load more comments