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Life on different paths.

Life happens to be like a deterministic turing machine. I wish there was some amount of alternation allowed along the way. I remember a day when I decided to learn cycling and also started learning and then there was a left turn and a right turn. I turned left and bang!! I crashed into a huge tree and next what I remember is a month with a fractured leg. Now I would be crazy if not curious to know as to what would have happened had I taken the right turn instead of left!!! (I am sure my cycle wanted to know it).

There are tons and tons of these junctures when I feel that there are lots of options and why not check on each what happens. But life doesn't allow us to do that. I mean, there are people who feel "it would have been so much better if I was never born" or on the other hand, "man, this world would have been bad place without me". And most of us get fits of both, and it would have been so amazing if we could really know what would have happened!

There is a movie called Sliding Doors, in which they have shown what happens to a girl's life along two paths. One on which she manages to catch a train and the other. I mean, movie is nothing great, just another love story, but this funda about life along two different paths was captured there. I have always wondered about wanting to have a life along more than one paths. But today's post by Lance Fortnow prompted me to write this as a post in my almost dead blog. (Having read this blog ain't you wondering: It would have been so good had I not read this!)

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Saurabh said…
hey,

must compliment you for a very well written blog... leaves me wondering whether life is just a matter of chance or destiny... or is it all in our hands... or, going even further, is it a stochastic mixture of all these... don't know... maybe i shouldn't have tried to comment... or maybe it is good that i did... maybe...
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