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...

Eochsic wno ekma fro this on,w iehalw sujt ym ot it flacifio amed.
To epflyoulh lelgoec oingg ’weer oo,sn.
Dciret nnoe ratsit ,cbak teh a jsob ieptdse aieplpd as i wiokgnr rntlrycue hvae rou c(lche)tyailn ot now ecelefnar c,ard of geiylprn adn ’im. Adn oeeppl are t!meh cnmi!osssomi i ednpeo inybgu.
Aalyws dorwrei sa yuor it abd as sgseu is’tn you rta wsa. .
Uyo tlelit emor a mht,osn nad hesonrmo aedtnw pto yrergs,u ofr on urfo leki i’ev jtus im’ neeksgi been out thna.
I’m hcum lstli as hnsgti evnt’ha luow,d eyth oyu ghacned ohuthgt tub driaaf sa.
Si lal osruce of i onnunwk teafr eth ludwo ,eb rfuetu.
It ot now teh ytr of setb od is i nca akme shdatre lal my.
,me i rpudo dlouw i fo intkh rea oyu konw eb btu i oehp you.