Parallel Universes

Last weekend we watched a documentary about how the universe is expanding, and some scientists believe that it’s expanding without curvature–expanding infinitely, never to touch back upon itself.  What this means (according to this documentary) is that every eventuality possible in your life has occurred–every choice you’ve made, the alternate choice was made by some alternate you and things unfolded completely differently in that world.  What?

I’m also in the process of going through a journal that I’m nearly finished with.  I write on my iPad and my laptop and my phone, but usually things start in my journal, during a writing group.  I rarely transcribe work directly from my journal, but as I’m looking back at the start of my most clarifying writing (make no mistake, the primary purpose of the writing is to understand the things that I don’t understand) the key lines are always almost exactly the same from one version to the other.  So maybe no matter how many different versions of your life are unfolding out there, the main things you all will understand about life are the same, you just come at them in different ways.