That we voluntarily face our lifelong fear of needles once a week so that we can be a girl. Yes we basically just shoot up pure cooties all the time, yes it’s extremely worth it.

A laptop that I use every now and then today was already manufactured when I was 10 years old.

How much I get paid and how poor I still feel.

That I’m in fact NOT dead and she should probably plan for that.

Being a few months from 40 when you were told by all your doctors you won’t make it past 18 has made things very complicated and difficult

My 10 years old self would not believe the current state of dating and distrust among people in general. Erich Fromm described it in 1952, but in Europe it arrived much later.

Also the lack of attention caused by smartphone and the almost disappearance of casual conversations on the bus, the train, etc. Sometimes people is afraid of casual conversations with strangers.

it’s worse than you imagined… yes, even worse.

Me in 1998 watching ZDTV and playing quake and loving everything about computers and the internet.

Me in 2026 me straggling to even like computers and loathing the internet.

I hate Obama

That I am actually able to sit in front of a desk for 8 hours straight

That I’m alive, on the other hand, that I have probably less than 2 years left to live 🤷‍♂️

That I didn’t grow up to be a train driver

Oh and gay and married

That mum is actually nana and aunt Susan with the eye is really mum, also robots are dancing now.

We all have a Ziggy from Quantum Leap in our pockets.

That the future actually exists. That it is actually not some made up nonsense adults say for some unknown reason.

AI is definitely at the top of my list. I didn’t think it would have ever come sooner at my lifetime.

And sorry to humblebrag, but I’m not doing too bad with my investing. I just wished I knew more about it ten years ago and I would not be stuck in a bad company!