It is common to think about different outcomes resulting from different decisions we feel we could have made at any time in our lives. For instance, “what would have happened if I had turned left at that stop light instead of right, would I still have been in that 30-car pileup?” “What would my life have been like if I was born to parents in Yemen instead of South Korea?” “What if I never had a horse, would I still have gone to college?” It is common to imagine alternative outcomes to any decision we feel we made. However, because of the nature of time, there actually aren’t any.
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