What's a part of your current life that your 10 year old self might not even believe is true if you travelled back in time and told them?
Stuff like having a smart phone, development of chatGPT, current events, etc.
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Stuff like having a smart phone, development of chatGPT, current events, etc.
That I actually WILL carry a calculator in my pocket all the time, and use it to talk to people across the world
Haha Ms. Morrison, look at me now!!! Ask me what 285 + 485 ÷ 29 is BITCH!
There will be rockets that land themselves back on the ground after launching sattelites, but the people that make them are evil.
That I’m in fact NOT dead and she should probably plan for that.
Being a few months from 40 when you were told by all your doctors you won’t make it past 18 has made things very complicated and difficult
That I didn't grow up to be a train driver
Oh and gay and married
Came here to say: divorced
My Catholic mother always talked about divorce like it was one notch short of theft or larceny. Yet it was key to regaining joy in my life
Just being a rad dude, honestly. My past self would be so stoked
Rock on my dude.
Me in 1998 watching ZDTV and playing quake and loving everything about computers and the internet.
Me in 2026 me straggling to even like computers and loathing the internet.
How much I get paid and how poor I still feel.
My 10 years old self would not believe the current state of dating and distrust among people in general. Erich Fromm described it in 1952, but in Europe it arrived much later.
Also the lack of attention caused by smartphone and the almost disappearance of casual conversations on the bus, the train, etc. Sometimes people is afraid of casual conversations with strangers.
We all have a Ziggy from Quantum Leap in our pockets.
Now that's a phone case I could get behind.
And before posting, I got curious and of course someone has actually done it... https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1510193079/ziggy-handlink-quantum-leap-phone-case?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details
That we voluntarily face our lifelong fear of needles once a week so that we can be a girl. Yes we basically just shoot up pure cooties all the time, yes it's extremely worth it.
That I'm alive, on the other hand, that I have probably less than 2 years left to live 🤷♂️
Why is that?
Terminal brain cancer, fun stuff! 🥳
I am so sorry. I hope you will enjoy every remaining moment!
That mum is actually nana and aunt Susan with the eye is really mum, also robots are dancing now.
"It's actually downhill from here lol"
it's worse than you imagined... yes, even worse.
That I am actually able to sit in front of a desk for 8 hours straight
It gets better once you leave education
I'm mid 30s. Care to elaborate?
I am about the same age
I am almost half again as old as you are.
That the future actually exists. That it is actually not some made up nonsense adults say for some unknown reason.
Deep
It really wasn't supposed to be.
Oh jeez. Just about everything.
Top of the list would probably be that I have tattoos.
Gestures broadly
...that my marriage is crumbling. And that I am now atheist (completely separate things BTW).
AI is definitely at the top of my list. I didn't think it would have ever come sooner at my lifetime.
And sorry to humblebrag, but I'm not doing too bad with my investing. I just wished I knew more about it ten years ago and I would not be stuck in a bad company!
I hate Obama
A laptop that I use every now and then today was already manufactured when I was 10 years old.
Most of it, specifically the not being strictly "Christian" anymore and the being queer/nonbinary.
none actually , I'm as failure as exactly my parents told me
you're not :)