Branches.

CJ:
Tina and I have been talking about the idea of life as a set of branches. We can make all kinds of choices and take all kinds of different paths. They all lead us to ourselves.

All our paths are out there- or, you could say, in here. They are all real.

All the possibilities!

Our own existence is so complex that if we really try to comprehend it, we realize we can't possibly comprehend someone else's as well. There is just too much crammed into our own universe to actually get what someone else's is like.

It is good to try though! Empathy is good, the attempted understanding of the other.

Alas, it is our own universe that ultimately compels us, that ultimately enraptures us, that we return to time and time again. Whether it is through thinking about other people, about god, about the universe of planets and stars, we always return to ourselves at the outer limits of our thoughts and at the inner sanctum of our soul.