Some months ago I was reading (and re-reading) one of my favourite blogs of all time. Tim - the blog’s author - has a way of perceiving and explaining things around us that makes you go holy ape shit about (coughTeslacough) or sometimes, how about this weird feeling. Thanks to my sister’s recommendation, I became a big fan. Tim is also an INTP like myself. I’ll write about my favourite articles in another post. Maybe translate few of them to Vietnamese?
While reading the articles, I came across this picture that really changed my perception about decision making:
Talk about parallel worlds! If I hadn’t eaten that pork chop last night, would there be another timeline that has a more-self-control-and-definitely-thinner version of myself? The possibilities are endless, lying upon my ability to make the right choice, today? Life could be better, had I made the right decision 15 years ago? Fuck.
No sweat, friend
Here is more to the graph.
Sometimes the path you took will take you very further away, then suddenly meet other timelines randomly. Which makes it feel like the choices you made before didn’t really matter.
I wonder if this is what happens every time you experience Déjà vu. What if it means you just met other timelines that also have a version of you writing a blog on a sunny balcony, in midst of the ever hustling Saigon after the pandemic, despite making different decisions?
There are of course the decisions that change the course of your life path. This would be the decision to study college in another country, choosing the career which will define you as a person (think of how people introduce his/her self: “Hi, I’m Bao, I’m a developer”) or choosing a spouse for marriage. You’ve been in these situations before where you have to make a choice. You even wrote down the pros/cons list, didn’t you?
In between these big/small decisions, you have an infinite amount of decisions that you’ll have to make every day:
- Do I clean the house or hire someone to do it?
- Do I go to the gym or stay home and rest?
- Do I eat out and cook a meal?
These decisions will fluctuates your life on a smaller scale, but still lies within a bigger “trend” of your path:
So there you go, we have just visualised my lives’ ups and downs into a stock chart. The question is, what kind of stock should we be? :) We’ll dive in the discussion in part 2. See you soon!