The Past Self

You go back in time. You meet your past self and you tell your past self to do things a bit differently. Not too differently, you say, because you don't want your present to be too different. But does your past self do things differently? Your past self goes on to do only what you have already done, what the moments made you do; your past self justifies doing so by thinking that you don't really know what would happen if you hadn't done what you had done in your past, if you had done more, or if you'd done less; and your past self would be right in thinking so. You realize then, how you are not as autonomous as you previously thought, and perhaps you are compelled to do what you do exactly as you do it, never more, and never less.

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