Timeline is malleable

From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. — Aldous Huxley

A few days back I was back in Kharagpur for my convocation. There were a lot of places I went to and a lot of old friends I met. After coming back to Bangalore, I was sitting with one Kharagpur friend and he was telling me his convocation experience. We both had a lot of fun and enjoyed to the fullest but his experience was completely different than mine!

We were discussing a particular night when it rained so hard during convocation that half of the hostels ground floor rooms were flooded. He and I were in different parts of the campus and were doing completely different things. This struck me, as I thought I could also have been doing what he was doing at that time, or vice-versa. But we chose to do what we did.

According to the wildly popular multiverse theory, there are infinite parallel universes and for every choice you make there exists a parallel universe in which you made the opposite choice. This is a very old theory and helped a number of superhero comic stories, but for now no one is even close to prove it in real life. According to me, it is just a way by which people try to be happy with their wrong choices and think that somewhere out there is a place where they made the right choice.

Everywhere there are a lot of little universes living their lives and we can only be a part of one of them at a time so it's on the choices we make which decides the universes we will be part of and that's what makes all the difference.

In life also, every moment which we are living is part of a single universe out of infinite universes happening at the same time.