Maybe in another life, I would not be a lawyer. There is a good part of my work that I have enjoyed very much but there is also the dreary and routine part that I have to put up with. So yes if there were a parallel universe, please take me there. I know there is no perfect package for life, I do reckon with the choices I have made and I know that all packages have certain pitfalls . But that does not mean I cannot imagine what if there were another life, what would I like it to be and what kind of choices could I have made. The truth is I probably would have made the same mistakes and similar irrational decisions even if I had the benefits of the hindsight I now possess. If I had not been impulsive and the kind of person who does not plan and see where life takes her, I might have become cynical and too pragmatic and I would not be the person I am now.
An old school
friend is happy to find that I am a free thinker as she is one. Many people she
and I know are either Christians or Taoists or embrace some religious faith. But
I do believe in rebirths and evolution. I also believe that there are many
different life packages as such there could be various permutations of us
depending on the circumstances we have landed ourselves in.
Maybe in
Another Life written by Taylor
Jenkins Reid is a fiction that depicts how
different consequences follow when the protagonist makes a different decision
at a certain point of her life. At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Marie Martin
still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She has lived and held
countless jobs in six different cities. She decides to go back to her roots in
Los Angeles after having a
disastrous relationship with a man
who is already married. To celebrate her first night back, her
best friend, Gabby takes her out to a bar where she bumps into her high school
boyfriend, Ethan whom she still has feelings for. The story is about what
happens if she goes home with Gabby and what happens if she does not go home
with Gabby. Maybe in
Another Life is about how Hannah’s decision can result in different
stories in two parallel universes.
The point is, a different decision brings about a different outcome, it thus prompts the questions :
Is much of our life determined by chance ? Is there only one soul-mate?
‘ And I was reading about
different theories about the universe. I was really taken with this one theory
that states that everything that is possible happens. That means that when you
flip a quarter, it doesn’t come down heads or tails. It comes up heads and
tails. Every time you flip a coin and it comes up heads, you are merely in the
universe where the coin came up heads. There is another version of you out
there, created the second the quarter flipped, who saw it come up tails. This
is happening every second of every day. The world is splitting further and
further into an infinite number of parallel universes where everything that
could happen is happening .This is completely plausible, by the way. It is a
legitimate interpretation of quantum mechanics. It’s entirely possible that
every time we make a decision, there is a version of us out there somewhere who
made a different choice. An infinite number of versions of ourselves are living
out the consequences of every single possibility in our lives. What I’m
gettingin at here is that I know there may be universes out there where I made
different choices that led me shomewhere else, led me to someone else.
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Vevey December 2012 |