4D Time or about time or.....
An old friend of mine has chided me to make a new post. Okay.
A considerably younger reader here sent me an email some time ago (which, inexplicably, I can no longer find). In it he asks an interesting question, and realizes that this forum of older intelligentsia (hope that word isn't offensive, if it is attack at will) is a better place for his question than his own forum (of much younger, cooler readers). Contrary to the lack of my input here, I have given his thoughts much thought. I would add a bit, and I am going to rephrase it some here in my own words. I hope he doesn't mind, that I get the thought correctly enough and I also hope he wishes to identify himself here, but that is all his call. It is a two-parter.
1) You enter a familiar room. Standing over there is you, when you were just twenty years old. You sense this isn't actually you because YOU are standing over here, and besides, you remember this room as having a window over on this wall and not that one, along with a few other minor discrepancies, so you guess this is some alternative you in an alternative time line, a part of the "line" YOU have passed through already. You also see a timer (just in your head) ticking down. You don't have much time.
What do YOU do?
If you give you advice to you of some kind (do YOU?), what is it?
2) It isn't you over there this time, it is some unknown young person living in the time when you were almost 20 years old. What do you do this time?
If you choose to reply to any of this, I want you to also tell your age (+/- 5 years), right up front. (As example, I am closer to 50 years old than 40.)
My reply will be as close to the 10th reply as I can get.
A considerably younger reader here sent me an email some time ago (which, inexplicably, I can no longer find). In it he asks an interesting question, and realizes that this forum of older intelligentsia (hope that word isn't offensive, if it is attack at will) is a better place for his question than his own forum (of much younger, cooler readers). Contrary to the lack of my input here, I have given his thoughts much thought. I would add a bit, and I am going to rephrase it some here in my own words. I hope he doesn't mind, that I get the thought correctly enough and I also hope he wishes to identify himself here, but that is all his call. It is a two-parter.
1) You enter a familiar room. Standing over there is you, when you were just twenty years old. You sense this isn't actually you because YOU are standing over here, and besides, you remember this room as having a window over on this wall and not that one, along with a few other minor discrepancies, so you guess this is some alternative you in an alternative time line, a part of the "line" YOU have passed through already. You also see a timer (just in your head) ticking down. You don't have much time.
What do YOU do?
If you give you advice to you of some kind (do YOU?), what is it?
2) It isn't you over there this time, it is some unknown young person living in the time when you were almost 20 years old. What do you do this time?
If you choose to reply to any of this, I want you to also tell your age (+/- 5 years), right up front. (As example, I am closer to 50 years old than 40.)
My reply will be as close to the 10th reply as I can get.