Our Other Possible Lives

And why it’s not worth pondering about

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One of the things that still perplexes me to this day is why we, as humans, tend to think about other potential lives. Movies have been made about alternate realities, things that have gone wrong or that could’ve gone differently (example: The Family Man). Books have been written, leading us down the path toward other lives that are (seemingly) better than…