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An idle mental exercise.
Jul. 6th, 2004 12:40 amTake your life as it is now.
Imagine yourself, oh, some 15-18 years ago, if you're old enough to remember that far back.
What would the you of that time think if you could go back and tell them what you were doing now? Would they believe you? Would they be happy? Or would they want to avert that future?
Are you where you thought you were going to be?
Edited to clarify: This isn't the old "Give your younger self advice" chestnut. "It's a variation - you're telling yourself that this is the future to come... what would be your younger self's reaction is what I'm asking.
This came about when I was talking to an old friend about where we are in our lives now and what we were thinking the future would be when we were in high school. We were cataloguing which of our contemporaries had the lives we thought we were all going to have.
Imagine yourself, oh, some 15-18 years ago, if you're old enough to remember that far back.
What would the you of that time think if you could go back and tell them what you were doing now? Would they believe you? Would they be happy? Or would they want to avert that future?
Are you where you thought you were going to be?
Edited to clarify: This isn't the old "Give your younger self advice" chestnut. "It's a variation - you're telling yourself that this is the future to come... what would be your younger self's reaction is what I'm asking.
This came about when I was talking to an old friend about where we are in our lives now and what we were thinking the future would be when we were in high school. We were cataloguing which of our contemporaries had the lives we thought we were all going to have.
