In Any Lifetime

by Marc Guggenheim

In a universe of infinite possibilities, the only constant is love. —Henri Thibault, PhD

When your life is over, he has discovered, you have all the time in the world.

He’s done it. He has become the first human to travel between universes, to traverse realities.

“What happens,” she ventures, “if you find a world where your wife is alive . . . but so are you?”

So trippy, but true.

“It would certainly make for the world’s most interesting love triangle.”

Lowkey funny

“I can’t even begin to fathom the energy expenditure required to jump realities.”

Me too.

“There’s already a world,” she asserts, “where you’re happy.”

Aka JUST.LEAVE.IT.ALONE.

He starts by opening Google, but a “404” code informs him that http://google.com doesn’t exist. This prompts a laugh. Who could fathom a reality without Google?

So thought-provoking...what would humans do without Google or even the internet in today's world. I know people lived just fine back then.

Jonas learned that sometimes the hardest thing to do in life was just to live.

The truest freedom, she realized, is not to be aware of how free one is.

“I know what it’s like to live with loss. To wish that fate had dealt a different hand. But a life spent wishing things were different . . . isn’t a life.”

Hope is the cruelest mistress,

“hate is a nutritious emotion; one can live off it for years.”