Comments on: Who Are You In A Parallel Universe?

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:39:12 +0000

It can definitely go both ways. I am a married suburban mother of two young kids, with close friends who are in their 30s/40s still living their lives in the city and traveling to their heart’s content. I sometimes daydream about what I’d be doing if I did not have a home or family obligations. I imagine all the hobbies I’d take up, the trips I’d get to take. How I’d curate and decorate my space if it were all my own. Sometimes I feel guilty for thinking these things. But it doesn’t mean that I don’t love the life I have now or that I regret the decisions that led to me having a family. I am a natural daydreamer, and I am sure I’d be dreaming of what I have now if I were to be unmarried or childless.

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:20:15 +0000

At 79 years of life I know the freedom paralleled thinking gives me and I have developed small rituals to celebrate them. “Oh the places you can go”. I live by the ocean and there is always someone which I count dogs as someone’s, who would love a smile or hello. They always respond and that has made all the difference. If you’re lounging for answer give it to another they have your answers.

By: Marcella

Marcella — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:31:48 +0000

My parallel universe is a healthy and free version of me living in Mexico City (I’m currently in the US) focusing on a minimalist lifestyle that priortizes experiences & education, truly slowing down (especially with work) and enjoying the present to the fullest. I actually think this lifestyle is not so parallel or out of sight if I consider where I’m at in life. Thanks for the inspo!

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:36:07 +0000

I love the thoughts you shared in this post. It reminds me of “The Midnight Library” that I read a couple of years ago. The lives we haven’t lived. I thought about taking a notebook and just write about some of the oaths that didn’t happen to explore what thoughts I might have about them.

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:48:30 +0000

I am currently grieving the version of me that is going to graduate school for wildlife and conservation biology. I have a bachelor’s in graphic design, yet a deep yearning for community connectedness through plants, animals, and environment. Graduate school wasn’t feasible financially, especially given I had no prior experience and I tested out a summer bird research role and realized analytical science may not be for me. I am channeling this instead into embodying the Naturalist that I am and deeply learning Bioregional Herbalism. While not getting to do Graduate school, I do instead get to start my Herbalism course in October and am taking a singular Botany class at my local university. I like to think that all of these paths are interwoven and that while they’re different, they still serve my values to their core. Just grieving the “credentials” of Graduate school I guess. 💌

By: Anonymous User

Anonymous User — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:13:07 +0000

After 73 years on this planet, I’ve come to the conclusion that there are no right or wrong decisions, only alternate paths. (Except for deliberately killing someone. That would lead to a path we wouldn’t want to be on.) Different past decisions would have lead to a different path in life. The situations would not have been better or worse, just different.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:36:19 +0000

What a great thought experiment!
One of my biggest life regrets is feom University, when I went into credit card debt to buy flight tickets to my planned year abroad to Ecuador.
The summer before I began to fall in love with my now Wife, and when Sept came there was no more experienced than I in life adult telling me ok its time to pack up and get on the plane. So I didn’t.
I would have spoken a 2nd language at least partially, and had incredible life experiences there. Maybe my career would look more like my dreams back then (an International non-profit or the U.N for example).
I work in the city where I grew up as a community based healthcare worker. I love this role and this (quiet) reality. But I can’t help but wonder how my story would be different had I got on that plane.