Daily writing prompt
Describe your life in an alternate universe.

What Ifs…

Dwain Northey (Gen X)

It is narrow minded and egocentric to just imagine an alternate reality for just yourself, unless all your imagined string of the infinite multiverse is that you have unlimited resources or were born into a different family or ethic group. Those things seem to me to be the only alternate realities that would not impact the whole of society.

If you are someone that believes that there are innumerable strings of reality.  In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and interact with each other. This in theory would create different realities on each individual string, some very similar and others very different.

The string that I would like to exist on is a string that in the evolution of mankind greed and borders were a concept that happened. In that reality mankind would understand that all life in this spinning blue ball was connected and war and prejudice are counterproductive.

The dystopian reality we live in has from the beginning pitted one against another for any number of reasons. Our current reality has spent uncounted resources on destroying others that share the same DNA structure but don’t share the same skin color or believe in the same deity. Image a reality where all those resources went to solve problems, cure diseases, lift up your fellow man instead of keeping them down.

That is the alternate universe I want to live in.


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