I Hate Past Me: Difference between revisions

* [[Artemis Fowl]] is shocked at how ruthless he used to be upon meeting his younger self in ''The Time Paradox''.

* In Jonathan Carroll's novel ''The Wooden Sea'', the narrator, Frannie, who is a cop, meets his past self, a troubled teenage bully. However, he eventually does come to see that he really was a good kid and manages to help patch things with his (teenage Frannie's) father in the past.

* In [[Stephen Baxter]]'s novel ''The Time Ships'', when Moses meets his past self he initially doesn't like his trousers, his waistcoat, his attitude, or him. Damn young turk!

* In the "Q-Continuum" series of ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels, Q takes Picard on a trip through his past to show him why breaching the galactic barrier would be a bad idea. Throughout the trip Q laments his past self's actions. Understandable, since he did grant {{spoiler|a sadistic [[Eldritch Abomination]] and its equally monstrous cronies entrance to our galaxy which led to the destruction of an entire civilization that had actually earned Q's respect.}}

* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "I Love Lisa", Krusty plays an old clip from 1973 of himself singing [[The Doors|"Break On Through (To the Other Side)"]]. "What was I on?" he muses.

 

* Admit it: ''How'' many times have you looked back on your life and the things you've done/written/drawn/made/whatever and thought "What the hell was I THINKING?!"