News for my past self

Me: *Time-travels back a year, slams door open and runs into kitchen* HEY PAST SELF GUESS WHAT you're gonna read part of your fanfic at a local event that celebrates fanfiction!

My past self: What?

Me: Yeah it's gonna be fab! Or not. We'll see what happens. This is still in the future, for me.

Past self: Wait, what's going on?

Me: Oh, I guess I should backtrack. You're gonna write a fanfic, a few months from now.... Wild, right? First one since teen years.

Past self: No, I mean, who are you and what are you doing in my kitchen.

Me: I'm you. I time-traveled back one solar year to deliver this news.

Past self: ..... Okay... Uh, you wanna tell me other stuff, maybe? Like, what's happening with the world?

Me: Oh. IDK, uh, Trump is still prez, Brexit's been pushed back, and people are concerned about Roe v Wade being overturned in the US.

Past self: How is any of this different from now? Also, Roe v Wade has been a concern since the 2016 election among women's rights groups, student groups and other groups I've known.

Me: Yeah things kind of got worse. Oh, but there's some large-scale actual work happening with inequality and climate change, I think. Also... you will have a tomato plant.

Past self: A tomato plant.

Me: Just trying to end it on a cheery note.

Past self: Wait, that's all you're going to tell me, regarding the future? Fanfiction and a tomato plant? And some policy stuff?

Me: That's what I feel like talking about. Alright, past self, PEACE! See you on the flip side!

Past self: What! Hang on, if you're going to leave while being vague and not very useful -- can you at least, like, take the recycling on your way out? You know where it goes outside.

Me: Uh... fine, yeah, okay. PEACE OUT! STAY AWESOME! *grabs recycling and leaves*

Past self: You too, self, you too.