This is a letter from your future self. I know you've devoured every work of SF in every library you can get at, so I'm sure you'll realise immediately that if you change your future actions by one iota as a result of this letter, the me who wrote it will no longer exist to write it, and the resulting paradox may have "interesting" effects on the stability of the universe. This is not a risk I feel inclined to take, especially as the best bits of my life (meeting my husband, and getting my current job) are due to pure blind chance.
So, I am not going to give you any advice at all. I know you well enough to realise that you wouldn't take it anyway: you have your own mind, you do not accept anything as gospel no matter who's saying it, and good for you.
In fact, I'm not going to send you this letter. The Cretan paradox is far more interesting than the kill-your-own-grandfather one, even if the Quantum Butterfly does have very pretty wings.
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Date: 2009-05-01 10:26 am (UTC)This is a letter from your future self. I know you've devoured every work of SF in every library you can get at, so I'm sure you'll realise immediately that if you change your future actions by one iota as a result of this letter, the me who wrote it will no longer exist to write it, and the resulting paradox may have "interesting" effects on the stability of the universe. This is not a risk I feel inclined to take, especially as the best bits of my life (meeting my husband, and getting my current job) are due to pure blind chance.
So, I am not going to give you any advice at all. I know you well enough to realise that you wouldn't take it anyway: you have your own mind, you do not accept anything as gospel no matter who's saying it, and good for you.
In fact, I'm not going to send you this letter. The Cretan paradox is far more interesting than the kill-your-own-grandfather one, even if the Quantum Butterfly does have very pretty wings.
Love, Jane.