Parallel Worlds

[poliphilo]

If it's truly the case that every time we make a major life decision we generate a parallel universe in which the alternative choice is explored then there's going to be a reality (as real/unreal as this is) in which I'm still a clergyman and presently contemplating retirement.

Is that other self as satisfied with his mid-life decision as I am? Has he made a success of the career I abandoned? Is he married or single? Is he still grinding away at parish life or has he- as I thought of doing- moved into academe? Does he have an LJ?

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I understand there are cases of people who claim to have jumped from one universe to another (woken up one morning to find things subtly different) but they may be not be true...

[matrixmann]

Remember what I once said: Human brain can play many tricks on the mind. There is no need for everything to be true what people claim.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

"I reckon there's more things told than are true
And more things true than are told."