Curiosity About Alternate Universes

[debka_notion]

I've been wondering sporadically lately, what I'd be like if I hadn't decided to be observant. I remember being at a Shabbos meal at nuqotw's place last year where she asked what we'd be doing if we weren't frum, and I think my answer then was dancing (it was the weekend of a dance camp), and another time was hanging out and talking- i.e. nothing all that different from what I was in fact doing. But really, I wonder who I'd be if I were doing something different with my life. I'm in no hurry to find out- that's for sure, I like the me that I'm creating. But it's an interesting to think about- would I be more daring? more happy? less happy? more comfortable? more tense? Where would I be?

Anyone else wonder those things? (Or the equivalent question for your own situation.)

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[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

Less provocative perhaps, but it's something that's within my reach. Gauging the reaction of someone I know (my old self) to a set of known circumstances (my current life) involves much less wild speculation than weaving an alternate history of my life, which has been dictated by as many random incidents as it has general trends.

I doubt I would have believed it, and had I believed, it would have been upsetting and scary. Well, maybe not the bit about being married, but the rest.