Alternatives and Answers

If you happen to be, say, a fifty seven year old american man who has never been married, and if you, um, love girls, chances are that over the years you have known a fair number of girls, onna counta the time span, and behavioral predisposition. And even if girls tend to frighten you, chances are, you've managed to communicate with a fair number of them.

So you end up advancing into old age with a lotta memories. And that's fine. No complaints. "All comes out even when the day is done, and more even still when all the days are done." quoth Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself "Voltaire". At the end we have only our experiences. Better make 'em good.

Unavoidably you think back on all the girls, from grade school through late middle age.Girls, girls, girls.  Then the idea of alternative lifetimes comes to mind. You know, what if I had married her, or her? Unanswerable, but fun to contemplate. The most natural thing in the world is to imagine that you could've married any of the bunch, and had a happy life. And maybe that is so. But, on further thought, it seems doubtful. 

Truth is, my honest conclusion is that no matter who I married, any of the girls I have known,a divorce would have eventuated. But who knows? Sometimes you wish you could find out, could live multiple parallel lives actualizing, experiencing all your many possible, potential lives. And who knows, maybe that's what we are doing, even now, in "parallel universes".

December 21, 2012 rapidly approaches, so we may not have much time.Wouldn't it be nice, if sometime between now and then we living in this reality obtained at long last the answers to all the nagging questions which have plagued us for centuries? Reincarnation? Parallel lives? Ghosts? Time travel? Extraterrestrials?

Just knowing that answers to all these questions  exist makes our continued ignorance frustrating. Either in another lifetime, on another planet, or maybe among our descendants, the answers are known. My intuition tells me that knowing the answers to these questions would be far simpler than knowing which girl I should have married.

by B B

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