I’m imagining like a lot of different timelines. I’m jealous of the versions of me in the better timelines, and simultaneously afraid of those darker timelines, ones even darker than this timeline.
Do y’all think of the world as different “timelines”?
Perhaps I’m too obsessed with time-travel/multiverse-theory?
Btw I read Recursion lately (time trsvel story). And I watched Dark Matter TV Series (parallel universe story). Both stories by the same author.
Every time these concepts appear in the media, my “obsession” just goes even further.
I don’t like this current “depression” timeline. Very shitty.
No, I really don’t, specifically for the reasons you illustrate. You eventually get hung up on the idea that there is another you living his best life while you are stuck in here. Way to be jealous and resentful of a fictitious yourself.
For all intents and purposes there is only one timeline and there is only one reality. I don’t like it here either at the moment but there is literally no point in entertaining these thoughts except to make yourself unhappy. Like browsing social media for other people’s success, except it’s even less real and completely made up.
How do you suppress FOMO though? Like logically what you said makes sense but it’s just hard to get your heart to agree
Missing out on what exactly? The entirely made up scenarios in my head of me living in a parallel reality where I am the beloved elected ruler of an utopian paradise that happens to be just how I imagined it?
That seems a little absurd to be concerned with, but if that is a serious issue for you I would definitely try to stop going there in my head, and/or seek counseling about it. That seems like a constant source of misery that has no reason to exist.