In December 2020, The New Yorker published an article written by staff writer Joshua Rothman titled “What If You Could Do It All Over?” The question/title explores the myriad ways into the unknown, one that could lead to a philosophical debate about how things could be better or different than what we are currently experiencing.
My favorite part was this quote:
“Most of us aren’t haunted so acutely by the people we might have been. But, perhaps for a morning or a month, our lives can still thrum with the knowledge that it could have been otherwise. “You may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife,” David Byrne sings, in the Talking Heads song “Once in a Lifetime.” “And you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’ ”
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