Our Lives are Parallel

"go then, there are other worlds than these."
-jake chambers, the gunslinger


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i'm sitting here, and for whatever reason that quote is stuck in my head. it won't go away, it is just sitting in the fore of my mind, and, as always with (anything about) king's dark tower epic, the idea of it is really fascinating me.

king's tower epic deals in so many ways with the idea that there are multiple universes, and everything in all the universes run parallel and what happens in one directly effects the rules and history of the other.

it just always makes me think, not because it is a theory (einstein's "parallel earth" theory) that is a real-life idea, but because i look at life in a way that is so similar to this idea; this idea that worlds are connected is how i look at life.

i think that everyone on earth somehow, eventually, effects every other person.

maybe not in real meaningful ways, but still, i believe we all have some effect on one another. i know all of those i asked to read this, and they may go on to say something about what (to someone else) i wrote in one of these (mostly) nonsensical blogs, and thus i am interconnected with someone i have no idea of.

i keep thinking of this parallel lives idea, that even without knowing someone, i am connected to them.

similarly, one of you may say something to me, have me listen to a song, and i may pass THAT on, and thus you have touched someone you don't know.

it's like a wave, and by doing one thing, you actually could effect dozens. hundreds.

thousands.

it's a bizarre thought, and i think the idea that writing... blogs, stories, poems, essays, whatever... can make people more connected than so many other forms of communication, and because of this, connect to more people...

i think it's what makes writing so important to me.

it just makes me really wonder...

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