We already live in a multiverse

And I don’t mean the technological multiverse, it’s much more basic and close to us. Everyday, our personal reality is either parallel or intersecting with realities of others. It’s what gives us connection or disconnection. What I understand or feel as reality might or might not relate to what you understand and feel as reality.

This opens up a very interesting and potentially conflicting emotional time for us. To connect with others, we play a role in the context of that shared reality, of the shared tribe, it’s beliefs, values, roles. Sometimes within minutes, sometimes hours, sometimes days, based on who and how we interact with, we switch realities in our daily multiverse: from kid to our parents, to team mate to partner to artist to player to reader to decision maker to pawn to victim to healer to creator to dreamer to rebel to someone who’s just sad, just like that. There is no portal, there is no spell needed. And sometimes we sit at te center of conflicting realities of people, one foot in one, another in the other, and it becomes less clear how to play that game, how to react, how to be seen.

But if you zoom out, maybe what is more important than knowing what to do… is to just understand we sit in multiple realities for and with different people. Sometimes we sit in multiple realities for ourselves as well. All at the same time. As important as coherence is for us, confusion, conflict, chaos creates motion. And we need motion just as much as we need stillness.

Then you can ask yourself… what is this i’m going through… for? What do I learn from this? And what now? Do I choose, do I just go with it, do I stop?