Comic #5690: past

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Panel 1: Person 1: "Are you ever embarrassed by the views and actions of past you?"

Person 2: "Of course."

Panel 2: Person 2: "That's power! Present me is the past of the future me! If I know in advance I'll be ashamed of this era in my life, I have the freedom to do anything I like!"

Panel 3: Person 2: "I'll be mortified about this time whether it's spent grasping for corporate promotion or living a bohemian life of bad poetry and sexual misadventure, so clearly I should do the second thing!"

Panel 4 (20 years hence…): Text: "Past me was a goddamned genius."

(Visual elements include a beach scene with a person laying on the sand.)