All Possible Worlds

Many people wonder how their lives may have turned out differently had they made different choices, if they had taken that job, or made that move on a crush.

Joshua Franklin did not wonder those things. He knew. In his mind’s eye he could see the myriad paths his life could have taken in vivid detail. They were all better than this life. The other Joshes were taunting him.

One possible life: He was married, had two beautiful children. Another, he was a world traveler. In yet another he did not obsess over what could have been and actually did something.