Jade Smith’s Reviews > Maybe in Another Life > Status Update

The world is splitting further and further into an infinite number of parallel universes where everything that could happen is happening. It is entirely possible that every time we make a decision, there is a version of us out there somewhere who made a different choice.

That’s what you do when you want something. You don’t look for reasons why it won’t work. You look for reasons why it will. So I’m searching, I’m digging, for ways to make it happen.

But it is certainly striking. And I’m learning not to read too much into good things. I’m learning just to appreciate the good while you have it in your sites. Not to worry so much what it all means and what will happen next.

And at that moment, I realize that if I have taken away a fraction of her pain, then I have more purpose than I have ever known.

You can only forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in the past once you know you’ll never make them again.

I made a mistake. And that mistake is part of what has led me to this moment. And while I need to regret nor condone, what I did, I have learned from it.

We have to face those consequences head on, for better or worse. We don’t get to erase them just by saying, we didn’t mean to. Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices. I’m starting to think that when we don’t own them, we don’t own ourselves.

It doesn’t matter if we don’t mean to do the things we do. It doesn’t matter if it was an accident or a mistake. It doesn’t even matter if we think this is all up to fate. Because regardless of our destiny, we still have to answer for our actions.

There are a lot of people out there who find the person they believe they are supposed to be with, and it doesn’t work out because they have other things they have to do, and instead of being a liar and running from their responsibilities, they act like adults and do the right thing.