ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Future self

Your future self is you when you are all grown up and living in the future. Just like how you are a child now, one day you will be an adult and have more responsibilities and experiences. Your future self is the older, wiser, and more experienced version of you that you will become. It's like looking at a picture of yourself now and then imagining what you might look like when you grow up. Everything that you do now will affect your future self. So it's important to make good choices and work hard so that your future self will be happy and successful.