One

Every moment of our life, we are faced with decisions. What to wear, what music to listen to, what notes to take in class, what to eat, who to eat with, where to eat, when to eat (no, I am not hungry right now), etc. Some decisions are larger than others such as where to go for college, what to major in, what career path to follow so on and so forth. Deep down inside everyone, I'm sure that there was one point where we all asked ourselves, "what if?" about a certain choice we didn't choose.

I definitely always run alternate scenarios through my head over and over again about not just decisions that I made or didn't make, but also events happening that were out of my control that would most commonly be regarded to as randomly generated events such as being stuck in traffic, waking up late, being in a natural catastrophe, stubbing your toe, getting an extra chicken nugget, etc.

As I was browsing through Netflix for a movie or tv series to watch, I came across Jet Li's The One. The whole premise of the movie was that there were alternate realities that existed at the same time in a multiverse. One small bit that has always grabbed my attention was that in one reality, Al Gore was the president while George W. Bush was the president in another reality. Given the background of the 2000 elections, the two candidates were very even in votes.

This prompted me to think about how things are in other universes that may be different based simply on a different decision that I've made. What if I decided to do engineering instead of architecture? What if I decided to stay at SMIC to finish high school instead of return back to Washington? What if I never decided to not date during high school? How would things have been different than what they are now?

I am quite curious as to how I would be different had I made different choices. I would like to visit these alternate universes just to observe. I guess it would be kind of like a 'choose your own adventure' book where we can just simply run through all the different possibilities not to pick the best one, but to see what could have been.