A letter from February 28th, 2014

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, You're 26 today, congratulations. I am not doin to hot right now but all I can think about is you. The hardship I endure today is for you. The day when I finally know what my calling is and act upon it. I hope you are still working with children, I hope Jeremy is happy, and I bet Julianna is the prettiest 14 year old on the face of the planet. And I bet you have a really hot guy in your life and if you just groaned at that sentence our prince is probably lost somewhere, but he'll find us. But there are two things that I want done by the time I'm your age and if you got sidetracked by reality, just do these for me: 1: Deliver The Letter. I know the date inside says 2013 but it needs to get to it's owner. I don't care where he is right now. 2: Please tell me you traveled. Now I know you so well that I am betting that if I didn't do it you winced and then was filled with regret and then you will try to rationalize not going with something like "But you don't understand little Jenna, I have bills (and probably college loans to pay off)!" Yea, that's not flying. Just do it. Go to Scotland. See a castle. Check out them fairy pools on the Isle of Skye. Geek out at the Sherlock Holmes museum. Recite Sonnet 116 at the Globe Theater. Geek out again at the Doctor Who museum. Do it for me and all the hard days I'm spending dreaming of the day I don't live at home anymore. Or maybe I never figured out what I want to do with my life. Maybe God has thrown a boomerang at my life and I haven't recovered (very likely). Maybe I'm living in the basement. Maybe I have no money. Maybe the entire world has been taken over by cyborg robot squirrels. Maybe I'm dead. Maybe I died in the service of my country defeating the last infantry of the cyborg robot squirrels on the lawn of the White House dying heroically by sacrificing myself to take out the last evil squirrel with their blinking evil red cyborg eyes knowing that without taking out that last squirrel that that one squirrel would immediately make 12,000 more of the demons and that it was my sacrifice alone that brought them down. Maybe the nation erects a monument in my name for my epic sacrifice. Maybe I sell that idea to Disney and Cyborg Robot Squirrels becomes the blockbuster film in 2020 that teaches not just honor and bravery, but also the power of friendship. Or maybe not...But hopefully I'll still like quotes... I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Epilogue

almost 2 years later

Dear Past Me,

God, I wish I could talk to you and actually deliver this message. You were going through so much and felt so alone. I wish I could...

I ouy hwo ma fo you tlel podur. Sgotrn ouy in ouyr so gnieb yaw fo so royu ifl,e uoy yamn ni nudfo teh wree tub obaelscts efac. Toko it wheli a. .
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Ldwou my ouy dya udtys asoicseta we you ssetam'r dretauga dema my sedeegr neo au!lhg and loebhcrsa or wto get ossbplyi in ehva ot evlieeb wcihh leogecl kbac ton, ounntgiacc spnla wtih hiwt it og and. Im' lifde, dofo a inffedetr lymepceotl leliabgn n,wo hrgit in. Esxbo aeecrl dseo het e,erh ubt rtgsnia back a tge swa it at apy jonyrue shteo lwdi isgnomnr off ot of lla. Tiwh utb tis' i leyidnefit cilhnerd ttah rkow fine ntod' emnaoyr ihtw 'im.
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Is payph myejre. Eevr rhpiape anth. Agdeurtda e!rsay llyfnia eh raey 10 retfa aosl htis.
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Goes yb j aujnilna now sday a. Yth'ere path rae nad onw yanensil nnytsltoca neeattdl adn ithre lubefiaut igfnrgo.
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Ak!saal erlbidniec is ni ojy oems si nishtg igndo dan trcnleyru.
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Nifd he heav rtgivhneey reipnc si ofr dan phdeo dlocu od ouy ew a eevr. 'wree and eonvsl we eht btteer lal voel ni thna reda sit'. Eoerbf enrve end and uoy neeb lepca omivng to do gmvnoi tbu moeh 'veouy pu ttah liek a lesfe uot. Hktni eerv s'it cosdeini i dmea setb v'eew the.
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Iihns:f rof me isnuebss to hte you tewand.
Veieddrle ew treetsl 1: het. Yreev last eno. Ni poesnr.
To :2 lonndo rnevheyigt in uyo atrvle did i 0218 ndtewa em i ddi dna ot. Leohw lets,ac oorctd ohw lto the u,emsum. To lotsdanc ntgaviler ethrso hvae pirt lwle sa od rmoe i snalp epoh as moes ofr atht keta dan i. .
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Ofr thgkinin oyu of h,tis no tbu sure isqlrrue ryogbc ton ahwt rewe losuryfe orpnito tetamr teh wree swylaa botro waht uoy. Ryuo ""xd ni rykiuq neve hasep. Uoy for hhiwc i ufatl atnc' yllear. Ifldyeenti cdolu eeridvl eiapmdcn idd lwrod os eifrfdtne engdaimi ouy het rmoe nath isth tretle in aws a veha. .
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Loe,v.
Naejn.

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