As I sit here stuffing my face with cookies I wonder what the future me will feel like. The present me doesn’t give a hoot. He like the taste of cookies, the crumbs that fall on the floor don’t even bother him cause he knows it will be the future him who has to clean it up. The me of the past isn’t too upset either; he feels like the present me has earned it on his good behavior. He swam 6 miles this week, ran 13 miles, worked out and weight trained everyday as well. Surely the past me has earned the cookies for the present. And surely the future me will work off what ever cookies I haven’t yet.
If that doesn’t make any sense, let me explain. I (we) are all 4 people.
The Past You
The Present You
The Future You
The Person you’d like to be.
Now, it gets even dicier if you have friends or parents because you end up being who they want you to be or need you to be as well. So you turn into you and who your mom thinks you are. But assuming you hold true to yourself there are only 4 of you.
The way it should work:
If all four of you are on the same page it is a smooth ride. The present you works hard at achieving the a goal of creating who you are. This hard work becomes what you have done (the past you), giving the present you experience, knowledge, and confidence. Or inexperience, stupidity and insecurity, depending on what you have done in the past.
Some past people eat a bunch of cookies giving the present person a gut or a bunch of calories and the future lots of work to do. Some past people eat right and exercise, giving the present them a great body.
The past you affects the present you. That’s both good and bad news. Bad if you were a lazy ass-hole, good if you aren’t and good if you are because you can change. At any time the present you has the power to change the future you, regardless of what the past you has done.
I ate 9 Tim Tams while writing this, when I am done writing I will go swim another 2 miles and hit the weights in the gym. Some people might say if you were just a little more responsible in the present you wouldn’t have to work so hard in the future to makeup for a shit past.
And there it is.
If I could take from the past that which I need in the present to succeed in the future, I’d be one well oiled machine. And not four people fighting within the one body. But that is the burden of being me.
I know the person I want to be, I won’t let the past me fuck the future me by telling the present me he can’t get back on track. But, I can’t keep the present me from getting too far ahead.
So funny and So brilliantly true!!!
I thought about this myself the other day,
but never add up the 4th person: The Person you’d like to be
that’s a very brilliant observation.
did you read it in some book?
any how I feel like discussing this matter myself. so : as I see them, there is the powerful one: The Present You (!) he has the choice, he holds the stirring wheel , leaves behind the trails of hes choices and working hes way to a better future after all the messing up and troubles and mistakes he had done, The Person you’d like to be usually doesn’t change as rapid as The Present You , hes/shes goals are the same in general, until they are achieved and than The Person you’d like to be have to come up with new ideas for new goals to achieve. ( some people are happy with who they are , in this case the goal is to keep it together, but that rarely happens as the song big yellow taxi)
the past you is just a frozen present you , but the fact is that the sum of the past you has great affect on the present you , and the person you want to be.
The future you has the greatest affect on the present you, as he (last one) see’s the future you, and by comparing to the person you want to be, he chooses what path to make.
In a very big sense they are locked in one body, but in a closer look they are different people that rarely acknowledge each other,and frankly has no real body at all. the body part is just a tool for each of them.
though the present is aware of all the persons the future cannot be aware at all. and the past is as stupid as the future.
the person you want to be is aware of everything that goes on with the other persons and is aware of himself, when he’s trying to keep it together.
it is true that you can definitely have a better you if all work together, but the most important thing to remember is that the person you want to be can be what ever you want!
it might take some time for the other guys to change towards the person you want to be, but eventually they all will! ( the past you changes because you don’t really give a damn about him so you remember what you want to remember.)
Ah, the internal struggle that many of us face.
I know the present and past me are always striving towards the person I’d like to be and hope that the future me and the person I’d like to be are eventually one and the same. 
you definitely make sense
But what is your advice for someone who doesn’t know the person they want to be? hmm…
Imaginaaaaaaaaation imaginnaaaaaaatttion imaginaaaaaaaaaation imaaaagiinaaaaaatioooonn lets go to imagination land.
can you please do one on burping please and thanks
my sister wants you to do one on why paint fumes make you high thanks love you lol
dear danny,
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=483526096442
i have come to the conclusion that the formula for caos, or rather the reason we are here is because
probability+matter=mass
explained in above link to facebook note.