EXERCISE: What will have happened this decade?

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Original posting 25 April 2013

There's a reason for that grammatical oddity...

There was a strange ad on TV recently. Basically, the camera panned around a table with four men sitting on it. Over their heads, labels lit up -- 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years. It was the same man, although the clothing, hair, and wrinkles changed a little bit. And the men talked to each other about their life. I think the point of the commercial was to buy insurance, oddly enough, but I was left wondering...

What if a person had an opportunity every 10 years to sit down for one hour or some other brief time to talk to themselves at various ages? So on your 10th birthday, at the witching hour, you find yourself sitting at the table with yourself at all these other ages. What, if any, advice or questions would you share? It's a bit like the dilemma that Cassandra and others supposedly faced, knowing the future, what do you say? I suppose reassuring yourself that you will make it through your teen years might be a good idea... Oh, and stay away from disco?

Go ahead, take a character and have them sit down at the table with themselves... Except separated by some period of time. What do they have to say to each other?

Write!