3 of the better failed sketches.

• Left:
  Original concept for my 18-year old self. The idea of a video game-playing "hippie" is pretty off-beat, and based on a regret that I dismissed Pokemon for the first decade of its existence. ...only when I looked it up, Pokemon Gold/Silver came out in 2000. That GBA with Silver on it could only have been held by the later 21-year old me, NOT this earlier version! (This is when I realized many of my regrets are fake, lies to myself propped up by temporal anomalies. It was a major revelation, and a very healing thought process.)

• Middle
  Me as a 36-year old Parkour Instructor, who got "stuck" as the Age 27 self. (The context of this would be in a gym, where martial arts style training is taking place.) A career path I had never considered before. I'm used to thinking of myself as an intellectual person, and yet, there was happiness and confidence in my athletic phase. Also, the dreadlocks and piercings look would go better with a less professional career path. It's plausible a decade later she would have had enough experience to be able to teach parkour to others.

*Right
Early sketch of me as Biology Professor, but somehow, this unwittingly became a sort of cheesy pin-up, right down to the fake sciencey stuff on the board. :p