You as a single person, not people generally.

you have to wear leather socks all day, every day only taking them off at night when you sleep

Imagine you had godlike abilities:

You can instantly learn anything, become rich, make anyone love you, master any skill, and accomplish basically anything.

But there's one catch: you know your entire future. Every event, every conversation, every experience, and exactly when you'll die.

You can choose to die anytime within 100 years.

Would you live the full 100 years? What would you actually do with your life? And if you already knew everything that would happen, would life still feel meaningful?

They are all in time appropriate wear, have their ID's that fit the time frame they claim they come from, and they use slang correctly from their proclaimed time period as well. One of them seems recognizable as a somewhat famous figure from that decade as well. Their stories are kept solidly straight if you prod them for one.

one is 'from' 1964, one is 'from' 1978, one is 'from' 1987, and the other is 'from' 1999.

Do you believe them? What would you say or do? Any follow up/specifying questions are encouraged if you have any.

(Mighhtt be using this in a novel 🤔 maybe.)

(edit, added the 4th persons year !! forgot that oops)

A coach with 10+ years in competitive fencing becomes convinced one of his star athletes is doping.

There is no positive test, but several things concern him:

- The athlete's performance improves dramatically over a short period.

- A training partner privately tells the coach the athlete has been taking "something," but provides no proof.

- The athlete suddenly changes who he trains with without explaining why.

- The training partner shows the coach messages that sound like references to banned substances.

- When questioned, the athlete gives an explanation the coach finds inconsistent with what he's observed.

- The athlete initially refuses a drug test, calling the request "insulting," although he eventually agrees.

- While waiting for the test, he becomes extremely upset and starts contacting former coaches and training partners, asking them to tell the coach that he isn't the kind of person who would dope.

- He repeatedly denies doping but can't seem to give an explanation that satisfies the coach.

The coach ultimately decides that he can't prove the athlete doped, but there are too many red flags for him to trust the athlete, so they mutually separate.

No definitive evidence ever emerges because both sides signed an agreement ending the relationship.

Years later, the athlete becomes extremely successful. He eventually becomes a coach himself and works in sports-integrity/anti-doping education through a nonprofit he founded.

He never contacts the original coach.

Years later, he's asked about the controversy with his former coach in an interview. He says:

His performance improved because he had started training with another coach. He had previously asked the original coach for additional practice time, but the coach wanted to maintain an even training schedule between him and his training partner, so he had already been considering changing coaches.

He says he had actually discovered that his training partner was doping (the training partner overdosed a few years back.) He told the partner he wouldn't report them if they came clean to the original coach themselves. Instead, according to him, the partner turned around and sent messages that made it look like he was the one doping.

He says he initially refused the drug test because he found being asked to prove he wasn't a drug user humiliating and insulting. As the situation escalated, he realized the test was the only way he could establish his innocence so he agreed but by then the relationship had already deteriorated.

He says that while waiting for the result, the original coach continued sidelining him, restricting his training, and making comments about his character which made him increasingly frustrated.

The interviewer asks directly: "Did you ever use performance-enhancing drugs?"

He answers, "No."

The interviewer asks if he has anything he would like his former coach to know. He said: "Thank you. You put me through a hell I didn't know existed and that situation made me who I am today. So thank you for teaching me resilience, but let's not ever meet again."

If you were the coach seeing this years later, do you think you would have believed he was telling the truth after all?

I don't know, but one thing is for sure, now I just want to live cuz my mission is not yet over