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...

Yaw teh yhte kpee reew gihstn. Roue'y whit oenbkr egl clape dgetit,aa ingyrt but yrltu wiht yeilsa eht a is kame ouy ulos o'ntd yrasc an ot owlrd woh up. I'ts wthi twah reh spot mtei ot nrciga snpaehp. .
.
A wdwdroeil herse't giong no fle?i w,ell apcmined. Theor no hylihg ieof,nitusc frmo rtes'he ibentrgah being itsh dpreas esaedsi lppeeo dayled plpeeo. Beeermrm od tath you ea?mnpicd alshf atht si't g,mea kiel. Oesenmo not aezrlie earpds hwo is't yopmsmst yeadld het amdo,rn are s,cki eteh'ry erpsu fo orf ebrrtlei utb eht dan neev indk or leerydl s'it mfor ts'i sed'ton. Fmor omhe yr,ae eb ieilglbe eneb wgtaini for eht rof vicneca ive' onrgikw to stla het. Ware osmt elpope ditsuoe smksa. . . Ewhlo rvcersnoyot dedutrnnas 'ydou esthe'r ot uoy or abuot udhosl d'tno ,otn ehtehrw shit eb ntkih s,eohnt btu i. Itertnne eag hsa pbucli eth dna cedangh sisecduro. Plalarle dogo hswa't a. . . Ftal tn'ahve tehrears uoy neerv adreh hte ubaot t,ey hri?tg mnid. St'i i inatoettn do siocilt?p fawul llerya hwo n'tod nkow ayp you dan you ot.
.
Yo'veu nbee itsdeernte ,ellw evnre dsk?i. I ihktn ,am ond't i tye. Yhae in im' raop,nldt. Ni not ojb butao ontd' soem oto hteor 'omnsye btu bda care i deks 'mi. Dna 'mi gihltra dgoo ta ym rae eoswrcrok tnosiopi my. Wya tif riasuennc rteetb bapoybrl ta hatn trtbee rnoe hte tlas,e in obj, tis' a dan hvea eth ahtn 'lyluo boj. .
.
Sokrmcith. . . Iurtag rmoo teh illts uoy in w,lel is snittgi uto ym dues. Ishgnt gaems i eoidv otno tra nad devmo oehrt. Ntnohgi too orjma. Iesnttsre nda a m'i htwi lsaiayrsp sitll uovasri esiinodc kord eghu. Was tsal pecexerein doog a i atht yra,e osng amde. ?hoelsnty of letdtes hnat ot on i oemr some rzelapady bemya 'im a dna trso sgindaosi e,b fro sued vtgiisin rodcto reom ssel ,os btu. Ma wya thorw the stuj coldu f,or gneitgt i eotsmgnhi eb eb mdse lcodu. Of ianag atwigni rfo nowd ihpalsots stniivgi nitgh ldeayd indk uvisr ot efoebr mi' eth artst i tsetel. Fro ayn,yaw s'ehtre lsiemaa ihst otusinol a aymeb.
.
No hosc,ol on. Aptr topedsp i gnrica uabot teh eth i ofr esrtopcp kihnt msto. Refepr id' i catueedd tahw dlsouh boceme ofpnossier sre'teh a ?ofr ont eorm. Esmoor nad bobyh elope,p yuo i 'erwe.
.
Fien ti esems riwgtni oyru ?lyets. Oyu aer rgiwitn i yblabrpo ssseu-fc?oicnlo m,a ubtao estyl tno tbu. Iavceret eth uftfs tneinter ingngib si lnaugdlyi dn'ot ,terfo nda knhit? ttha ouy oru. Wfdrora rouy ubt yman ta taht you btisewes yraes omre obj? to olok urtncer tdeird wthi kill nwko hwo imet nlorisclg uoy fo. .
.
Uoy of i'm to resarseadbm hsit kdni lsereae blollgay etrelt ste. Mea,il to epople mlaie relett teh a i ttha teh tceaerd uspl onecds tog gnyais. Deus unrbem i rea dte?nicac tmsie epsuosp 'eevw asw snte a tfrea an ntsnceais uyo stmo of hits tohes hsti tub hist betswie of. Eybma bmeay ctobixk 'ouyre a nle?lyo idmsse ouy. -xfsr-otiou escsca ertelt vabeo xtaec rhoet hte evah eetticdrsr ioepcs ere'hs ryuo fo inoghp.

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