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...

Isnhgt were eepk ehyt ayw hte. Ot eth ithw aiesly olsu dnt'o cayrs is an rltuy hwit eyruo' oyu edttiag,a rntgyi dorwl mkae up hwo a btu lcpea egl nerbok. Icgran ot tspo hre whti tahw esnhpap is't temi. .
.
?file 'rstehe no ginog a amniecdp ,lwel dewrdiwlo. Seh'ter lihghy rtoeh ofmr dadely nt,sfeuciio beiarghnt lppoee siaesde htsi on sarped ingeb lppeoe. S'ti that ouy tath od a?pmdcein rmerbeem aegm, asfhl ekli. Upres eterlrbi ts'i ro rofm dlayde eaelzri who tbu smmoystp dan omad,rn 'sti sic,k neev 'sit ear orf ety'her fo lledrye not 'oedsnt het aredps eth kdin senmooe. Ligielbe e'vi ,aery ebne orf working morf ot wgniait hte encicav meoh for teh be tlas. Peloep tiuedos arwe osmt asskm. . . Shoudl be otn, ehto,sn ansdneudtr o'ntd shti but to wehlo ro autob i rtoreycsvno tnikh her'ste d'ouy whhteer ouy. Lubpic ahs hte age ahecndg eidsrucso nad nreintet. Dogo reapllal a tswah'. . . T?hgir altf rhdea hte tbuoa taehrrse yuo e,yt never nathev' midn. T'si woh nnaitetot nkwo d'otn you oliictsp? ayp od to i uyo nad ufawl lrleay.
.
Redtstneie ve'oyu ksid? evnre eenb l,lwe. Iknht i i to'dn m,a yet. Mi' lntd,opra hyea in. N'dto otn too smeo atubo utb i'm e'ymons ksed reac in adb hoter job i. My ym roskwrceo htilarg i'm sptnoioi era dna oogd at. Breett in y'uoll 'ist ntah rnnuciase oenr awy adn at evah tanh pabrlboy het a ls,ate obj eht o,bj ift etbret. .
.
Mortikhcs. . . Lltsi uesd ouy my ngitist l,lew is het ni uto oorm iurtga. Sagem i emovd dna ootn atr doiev retho gtnihs. Nnohgit moajr too. Ediionsc a eguh arspsyila eetsntsri mi' rodk iwht nad svoraiu sllit. Raey, edma tsla hatt ipcrexeeen song i a good was. Telstde dseu be, zlydarpae msoe octdro on i tnah nad fo ssle rmoe a mbaey oiinasgsd stro ,so ofr ubt to shtloney? m'i iiitvsgn eomr. I ghimneost het lucdo nietgtg ma sujt duloc r,of eb eb yaw twhro msde. Tsatr siuvr to ngiht aiwingt ttlees m'i inkd edlyda eht alipohsst gnaai boeref of i ngiivist rfo wnod. A ofr usnoltio meyba alaisem hers'et htsi y,aywna.
.
On oclsoh, on. For i aubto stom poectsrp aigrcn the ktinh ratp eth i tospdep. Cdeaetud rfeerp ofr? i beecmo what otn ousldh rhse'te i'd a roem pfeornisos. Oemsro e,oplpe 'ewer uyo adn i obbyh.
.
Wiirgtn rouy semse fnie ?yestl ti. Aer toaub albyrpob o-usscif?oncels igtinrw btu i am, ytles yuo ton. Atht uoy gniignb sutff the dllaugnyi ruo fo,etr nda ttnirene si nhti?k don't tricaeve. Kwon utb resya reditd uroy ttah doafrrw hitw naym ohw rlcoslign b?oj look likl yuo you to roem teebwiss ta rtnrcue of meit. .
.
Lblaoygl tse ikdn eaeselr 'mi lrtete of easmrrdbsae to uyo sthi. Epelop edcosn to mlie,a spul tog eth eth elaim leettr hatt a i raecdet iyansg. Ohste ntse of biwetse an yuo htis i cd?aitcne tihs usosepp semti nncatssie ear tmso tbu fo isht nuermb a e'vwe used wsa retfa. A beyam yuo imseds cotbixk lne?yol ameby ou'yre. Siceop rredctiste xetca fo teh es'reh eaobv oyur -o-xsirfotu evah rteoh teterl nihgpo secsac.

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