An older friend of mine recently had a really weird experience at a local college. She was waiting in line for something, and met this girl who was planning the same career she had pursued. The chick had the same back-up plan she had had, she was dating a guy with the same career as my friend's husband, and she was making all the same miscalculations and mistakes about her future. My friend was in the weird position of talking to a younger version of herself, trying to convince her to change her path.
And it made me think. What would it be like to meet myself, thirty years from now? Would I tell me to go ahead with my plans? In thirty years, if I talk to people who are where I am now, what will I say?
Write a scene where a person meets a younger individual who is about the make the same choices that they did.
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