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Published: 2020-05-11 21:34:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 888; Favourites: 40; Downloads: 0
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We do not live in straight lines:we jump from one timeline to the next,
crossing paths with distinct universes
and alternate versions of the same consciousness
in a zigzagged maze to find our destination
Just because we remember things differently
doesn't mean anyone’s memory is faulty
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For some reason from the first line of this work, it made me think instantly of a program I was watching about this serial killer, Ed Kemper, I think his name was. Anyway, during the interview when he was asked if he ever felt different from others during his life or wished he could be different,.. he relayed one of his experiences, during which, after having just killed a woman inside his apartment, and severing her head, he put the head in a hat box and was carrying the box down a flight of apartment stairs, when suddenly, coming up the stairs, was a young couple, a guy and a girl, laughing, and talking, as they passed him by,.. just normal every day dating behavior. And he recalled thinking in that moment, how starkly different his own life was, vs. theirs; and what it must be like to live like that. And "if they only knew what he was holding in that box"..
Anyway... I wasn't first going to share that in the comments of such a great poem... But back when I watched that interview, it got me thinking,... and the thoughts expressed in your poem never rang more true at the time in my own mind. For truly, many among us do in fact live in a drastically different universes.. And how we all, basically, force our own version of the universe on others,.. sometimes in extreme ways.
Anyway,.. Did I tell you, Great poem?!! 
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An interesting position on the multiverse. I can relate to why that might be something you think about. I always wondered if there were different parallel universes where I was many different things, then what moral significance would my own choices have? Since in every other verse/version it would be a me with different choices and how would I know the real me or my true destination? Any thoughts?
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If true, I think that every version of ourselves would be our real selves. A different consciousness born from a different choice, but still the same person.
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Yeah, well, that's where my question comes in--what is the significance of my choices from my own perspective if it's all me--and there's a universe for every different choice, bad and good, I could have made. Ya know? In one universe I am fit, in another I'm a blob, in still another I'm really mean, in another I'm super nice...etc...and it's all really me...so then what am I? Get my dilemma?
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Human.
Time (as we know it) is linear and impossible to reverse... it's always just as possible that we never really had a choice.
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I'm not a fatalist or a strict determinist. I think it's important to leave a little space for human choice, otherwise what would motivate us to make better choices? To me choosing, or at least experiencing parts of reality as choices we get to make, is all part of what I consider human. I guess there are different ways of looking at the same conundrum.
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And yet they all end with death sooner or later.
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Guess what matters is the journey, not the destination.
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Jump, or intercept and share for a while?
Others, I think maybe, we cross at too sharp an angle
and after the jolt are like, "WTF was that"?! 
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