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Time travel
What Would Future You Tell Present-Day You To Do Right Now?
If you could go back in time, what would you do differently?
I cringe when I imagine how Future Michelle is going to judge me.
Future Michelle can point to some bad decisions and missed opportunities Past Michelle made and which Future Michelle was left to deal with.
As Present Michelle, I have a lot of sympathy for Past Michelle. I understand where she was coming from when she made those decisions — because I’m probably in the middle of making imperfect decisions right now. Future Michelle is not as nice, however. She can be a little judgy.
Mostly it’s smaller things.
Past Michelle didn’t wear sunscreen. In the early 1980s, we all thought we looked better with a tan. How much younger would I look today if I had stayed out of the sun or at least worn sunscreen, I wonder? But I wasn’t concerned with how I’d look when I got older. Only the present mattered to me.
Sometimes you can’t know until later that you’ve made a mistake. I know someone whose stock broker advised him, many decades ago, to buy Apple stock. It was cheap at the time. But he didn’t think Apple sounded like a company that was going anywhere, so he…
