The tapestry of our lives rolls out in a pattern
that is consistent where each moment fits into the
next. Sometimes though, the ends don't always meet
where maybe parallel realities get too close to
one another. The result can be the unexplained,
the supernatural, and mysterious happenings that
we accept as just being a part of life. You can
see examples with déjà vu and items disappearing
and reappearing from the same spot like they
dropped through a hole. Some people change their
lives entirely to try to achieve the feeling of
belonging to this reality because it just doesn't
feel quite right. Everything is there to be a
great life but they just seem out of place among
strangers and those even they know. Then there are
the very strange things that leave big question
marks about whether or not you're in the same
reality as everyone else. I experienced just such
an example as a young man all of about nine or ten
and it revolves around Star Wars.
It's hard to say if this actually happened because
the memory is so fragmented and yet so clear in
some places. My grandmother by 1970 had moved out
to a retirement community called Sun City near
Hemet California. That meant that once or twice a
year my brother and I would be dropped off for a
week to visit our grandparents. One time, just my
grandmother and myself I had gone shopping at a
Rite Aid type of store. As we were passing a
display case of books for sale, I had a minute or
two to look them over as they all seem to be from
one author with similar cover art on each one. My
recollection from then is that it seemed to be a
space saga revolving around a young man named Luke
Skywalker. There was Darth Vader and Wookies but
George Lucas wouldn't write Star Wars for another
seven years. Memory is a tricky thing.
That was my experience of feeling that my reality
got switched out for another reality without my
noticing. Then there are those who really feel the
reality they ended up in is the wrong one. Daily
we hear of those born to one gender yet do not
feel a connection to it and feel best as the
opposite gender. Their world needed more options
to express themselves as they embrace the freedom
to choose if there is an option to do so. Then
there are the tens of thousands of people who
every year experience a different reality in the
form of a Renaissance fair. Others choose Civil
War reenactments to change up their reality. Both
groups changing into the costume of the day as
well as the language from that period of history.
It's only temporary but they immerse themselves in
another time when that reality may have been very
much real to them.
Almost everyone has to ask themselves sometimes if
this is the reality they are supposed to be in
when it seems like this one is lacking in a
long-term solution to deal with the short-term
decisions that upended the planet's climate. For
those of us here in the states, the political
dichotomy between ideals has never been greater.
It seemed the rules of the reality of the past
have been rewritten to make hostile discourse a
go-to where once there was cooperation. It's easy
to imagine the reality we should be living in
since much of it is the opposite of the one being
experienced. Karra's reality on a higher dimension
is the one we will be living once we've learned
the lessons required of the third dimension. For
all its faults, this dimension is just what we
need to move on from it someday. If patience and
acceptance are the main takeaways from our
experience in the third dimension, it would be
hard to find a better place to learn how to become
an expert at both.
