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...

Ti cicheos my lofiaicf amed own fro emka ,now siht wleaih to sutj.
Egolcel we’er to elypfuhlo giong osn,o.
A dna erfcalnee a,kcb tnlrcurye norgwki ruo fo to wno hvea ’mi seidtpe iyrgelpn nnoe sboj tstair het eippdla as c(l)itehnylca cdra, tdrice i. I eopple rae somssicm!noi dna uibygn hmt!e noeedp.
Wreriod ’tsni sesgu aawsly wsa ouyr it abd as ouy as tra. .
Tuo adn mot,shn vei’ taewnd rg,rsyeu kneeisg enbe htan nohmerso on you keil pot orf ttelil m’i a utjs furo emor.
Nechdag otthguh yuo ’mi sitll as eyht owlu,d ’navhet raadif ginsht chmu sa ubt.
I rafet the lla b,e fo uoercs loudw is tefuru nwnukno.
Wno can akem ot i yrt si bste fo adrehst het my ti od lla.
Uoy i me, pohe i dwulo i uyo dporu nowk eb tknih tbu of are.