23. Something you always think “what if…” about

Several years back there was an incident, the sort of incident you see in time travel shows where you know something happened that split the universe in half. That was a turning point. One of those sorts of moments where you know if only you had restrained yourself, or left the house later, or used purple scrapbook paper, or decided to sleep in a sleeping bag. That moment, that incident, I know was one of those moments where all sorts of things changed.

The Lost fan in me wonders if maybe there’s another me out there in another time, in a sideways universe; living the life I would have had if only I had left the house later, or not used so many stickers, or decided sleep in a sleeping bag. I hate that, thinking, or knowing that, the sideways me ends up in a church and I end up dead in a bamboo forest.