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To Your Future Self

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by RawringSnake, Nov 26, 2015.

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  1. thepandaboss

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    Dear future me, did you get your shit together? Don't give me too many details, we both know how much I hate spoilers, but it would be nice to know things are okay.
     
    #21 thepandaboss, Nov 26, 2015
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    Pokemon Battle? 1 vs 1 on LoL?
     
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    Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!​


    That's the unspoken catch. The reason why I specified that you will be talking to a version of yourself is because—if we assume the future isn't a predetermined set of events fixed in time—depending on how specific your questions are, you might unwittingly alter the course of your future. Actually, this is inevitable, the specificity of your questions is just going to determine how radical the changes are gonna be between the life you'll lead from this point onward and the life your future self has led. Point being, the moment you had contact with this future self, it stopped being you-from-10-years-into-the-future and became you-that-could-have-been. The more you ask, the more you know, the more your timelines will diverge, the further away you stray from that version of yourself.

    Really, who you are talking to is actually a "what if" not a "what will be." :rolle: Feel free to ignore this tho if it convolutes things too much, and just answer as you would had I not said anything lol.
     
    #23 RawringSnake, Nov 26, 2015
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    Hah, it's Ho-oh vs Ho-oh
     
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    I think I'd end up nagging my future self if I tried that tbh. xD
     
    #25 thatchickcj, Nov 26, 2015
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    10 years? That'd make me 26 years old. Um... "How is life now you're an adult?" "How do you cope with homophobic people?" "Is the world any better?" "Where do you live?" "How do you feel when you listen to "Ain't it fun?" by Paramore? Do you still have my diary or plural depending if I write more? Is it amusing? Do you have a girlfriend? "Do you look back on weird trends and think "man I was such a teenies/2010's child"? Is Facebook the new MySpace now? Have you started a vlog or a blog? Do you upload to YouTube? Do you have a sense of self? How do you feel about nearly being thirty? Do you keep in touch with any friends from school/college ect.? Is life as bad as I think it's going to be? What did you do for your 18th birthday? Do you go out with friends these days and have some sort of social life? Are you happy? What makes you happy? Is there any advice you could give me ignoring all the possible paradoxes going to the future would cause? Unless you're just reading this in the future. Do you feel old if you have read this post at age 26? What music do you listen to? What's your age range on whom you would date?
     
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    As for me... I would ask "What would you have done differently?"
     
    #27 RawringSnake, Nov 26, 2015
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    Oh shit, where do I start? I'd probably ask them a ton of questions such as "How was coming out?" "Are mom and dad fine with it?" "Did you find the one yet?" "Did you achieve your life goals?" And probably more, but that's all I can think of at the top of my head at the moment.
     
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    Was it worth it?
     
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    "Did you actually ever want kids at some point? Cuz now would be the best time to tell me."
     
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    Did you ever become that badass Gothic Overlord you always dreamed you'd be?
    How was College? Spare no messy details.
    How has living without your mother's acceptance been? I want to know so I can better prepare myself for when the time comes.
    How has taking T been? I have yet to start that and would like to know if I bald or not.
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    Have you collected anymore awesome fanarts for the walls?
    Do you have your own car? Or license, for that matter?
    How has living on your own been? Is it too expensive? Have you found a job?
    Have you finally found love?
    Have you finally begun learning Japanese?
     
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    Am I dead yet?
     
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    Does it really get better?
     
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    Do you have any regrets?

    Hell, if I still seem to be up and walking I must be doing something right, right? :lol:
     
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    I'd ask them if they remember having this conversation 10 years earlier...and if so, what did they ask then?

    Or I might ask what goes so very wrong for me in the next 10 years that I would go back in time and almost certainly change the course of those past 10 years?

    Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of this line of questioning. If this kind of time travel was possible, people would be even more miserable than they are now.
     
    #35 biAnnika, Nov 27, 2015
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