Comments on: its those little things in life

By: Son Huttle

Son Huttle — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:34:53 +0000

Uhhm..Hi there, Many other people shall be benefit out of your writing. Cheers!

By: tav

tav — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:01:30 +0000

the mathematical me doesn’t compute that last comment

By: Ibn-Battuta

Ibn-Battuta — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:33:47 +0000

Err… I was indulging in the fantasy that there are a potentially infinite number of alternative realities.

In each reality “you” have made a different choice at some point during your life, sometimes with slight and sometimes with huge consequences.

Because there’s an infinite string of “alternative yous” I think you can rest assured that you’re somewhere in the middle of them. Exactly in the middle, actually.

By: sonia

sonia — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:22:07 +0000

and also…who said anything about this being about ‘comparing’ some one’s life to another? really some people are so competitive. this sort of thing applies to everyone’s life. and of course it happens both ways.. you miss the bus and it blew up 2 seconds later. i think i was going to put that in the post as well but didnt get around to it. i was referring to a friend of mine who got evacuated from the Tube on 7 July, only to get onto that ill-fated bus, luckily for her she got off at the stop just before.

and i wasn’t pointing it out because i think people ought to go around thinking ooh if i do this, if i do that, of course you cant do that cos you cant live like that.

but anyway - i still refuse to accept that i am very very average. whilst you may be some very very average character, i certainly am not. ha! not in this realm anyway - hee hee, like Danny Wallace, i could proclaim myself king too.. !

By: sonia

sonia — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:02:40 +0000

I think that was my point..! duh.. i didn’t explicity mention it goes both ways, i should have thought it was obvious.

By: Ibn-Battuta

Ibn-Battuta — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 20:34:36 +0000

It works the other way around though too, doesn’t it?

What about all those times you could have altered your plans slightly and inadvertently ended up in a difficult situation… but you didn’t change your plans? (And so you’ll never know what might have gone terribly wrong but didn’t).

If you start to think about all the small actions you have taken in your life which have ended up having massive consequences, you can drown in the prospect of how different your life might be in an endless number of alternative realities.

There are so many small actions in your life you might have undertaken (but didn’t) which might have changed the direction of your life in a massive way (but didn’t) either for better or for worse.

Indeed, I’ve always thought the most depressing thing about comparing your life to the lives of the rest of the potentially endless alternative versions of you, is that you come out as being very, very average.