What is something you'd actually have a hard time convincing a past version of yourself to believe?

[Irregardless]

It could be anything, an event that occurred, a technology that we have, an experience that you had. Anything that if you were to tell a version of yourself from 10-15 years ago about it, you probably wouldn't believe it.

Some examples for me would be:

1. The world is more sexually promiscuous/degenerate than ever before and yet fewer men are having less sex at higher ages than ever before as well.
2. AI came out of nowhere as this revolutionary thing that can basically do anything you tell it, but also it sort of can't...? Like the things it can do are insane, but at the same time there's a lot of little things that it doesn't/can't do or mistakes it makes.
3. VR technology is in a pretty decent space with really good graphics but for whatever reason most people who use it are pedophiles and furry's that just sit around in chat rooms.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

-That there will be time, when I go to a supermarket and all non-food items except hygiene products are behind a tape and I am not allowed to buy them, because there is a deadly virus and this measure has to force me to take it seriously.

 

[Lovely Kin]

Fatasses would attempt to form a movement screaming for acceptance, only be defeated by weight loss pills. I would be in a short yet very loving relationship.

 

[dick brain]

there is a deadly virus

You'd have a hard time convincing my present self to believe that one.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

You'd have a hard time convincing my present self to believe that one.

I mean, if my future self told me the most of humanity is dead because of a virus, I'd believe her. But shelves with socks behind a tape, cos we aren't afraid of a virus enough? C'mon, that's a bit over the top.

 

[Marc]

That subsequent interaction and investigation would confirm that everything my younger self had cynically dismissed out-of-hand as not worth a damn was, in fact, worse than he had imagined; and that he's entirely on his own to alternate between waiting and distracting himself until he meets his ultimate demise - Meaning he is truly like everyone else. Then I would kill him, and have a moon pie while waiting to see what happens.

Actually, scratch all that: He would believe it. So I would probably just lie about some confusing and specific point of trivia before killing him and getting on with the moon pie business. Everything's mere pretense to the moon pie business.

 

[Ratboy Genius]

I was super gullible at that age so I'd probably believe anything tbh... But for the sake of the post...
-You (me) are pretty, and your acne isn't bad.
-You don't need 2-inch binders for every class. Just a couple of notebooks is enough.
-You don't need to be "just as good" as this person and that person just to meet other people's perceived expectations. That standard is impossibly high and you're breaking your own heart. There's no need to minimize your own achievements, because your value is not achievement based, and your path won't look like anyone else's (and that's okay).
-Mushroom swiss burgers are amazing.