Midnight Palace
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It could be fate, chance, or there could be a reason for everything. In this case, there could be a reason for everyone. How many of you have realized that just as easily as you have been alive, you might never have even existed. Before any of us began “life”, we were in competition, with our own would-be siblings. Obviously, we won. However, suppose you weren’t the faster swimmer. You wouldn’t be reading this right now.
Think about all of the people we have come to know as icons, be they entertainers or history makers. Suppose people like Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Marilyn Monroe, George Washington and Jackie Robinson lost that first race. Would their “siblings” have made the same impact? Would these human landmarks have even occurred? Our history books, our sense of culture, and everything that has shaped our understanding of who we are…would have been completely different. For every single individual who has ever lived or died, there could have been someone different in their place.
Inventions that have become staples, like television, microwaves, automobiles and the like would still have been invented, but probably not when they were.
Suppose your father was the fastest swimmer, but your mother was not, or vice versa. They would have married someone else, and the rest of your family tree that would continue from you on, would never take place. Your son or daughter (if you have one now) would never exist, nor would their children or grandchildren.
Suppose Saddam Hussein and George Bush, Sr. never existed, would there have been a Gulf War? Would there have been a Vietnam, or Korean War, World Wars 1 or 2, Korean War, Civil War, Revolutionary War or any other war we’ve had throughout the course of our history? Would there have been Prohibition, Slavery, The Great Depression or a Stock Market Crash if the people involved never lived? People’s ideologies stem from their personality and upbringing, so if a different set of people were in that place in time, those ideals may never have come into play. Harriet Tubman may never have had to guide slaves through the Underground Railroad, there might not have even been an Underground Railroad. September 11th might have had no other significance but being the day that follows September 10th. This would have been a completely different world if our siblings had beat us in that race.
As if that’s not crazy enough, suppose we weren’t conceived at the exact time that we were. If you’re currently 16 years old, had your parents waited 2 more years before bringing you into the world, you’d still have to wait 2 years before you could get a driver’s license, because you’d only be 14. Having said that, you were only conceived at the moment you were because of your parent’s time table, which was a result of their parents’ time table, and their parents’, and all the way back to the beginning. But again, if all of those people had lost, there’d be nobody to reply to this post….if it would have ever been written.
Think about all of the people we have come to know as icons, be they entertainers or history makers. Suppose people like Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Marilyn Monroe, George Washington and Jackie Robinson lost that first race. Would their “siblings” have made the same impact? Would these human landmarks have even occurred? Our history books, our sense of culture, and everything that has shaped our understanding of who we are…would have been completely different. For every single individual who has ever lived or died, there could have been someone different in their place.
Inventions that have become staples, like television, microwaves, automobiles and the like would still have been invented, but probably not when they were.
Suppose your father was the fastest swimmer, but your mother was not, or vice versa. They would have married someone else, and the rest of your family tree that would continue from you on, would never take place. Your son or daughter (if you have one now) would never exist, nor would their children or grandchildren.
Suppose Saddam Hussein and George Bush, Sr. never existed, would there have been a Gulf War? Would there have been a Vietnam, or Korean War, World Wars 1 or 2, Korean War, Civil War, Revolutionary War or any other war we’ve had throughout the course of our history? Would there have been Prohibition, Slavery, The Great Depression or a Stock Market Crash if the people involved never lived? People’s ideologies stem from their personality and upbringing, so if a different set of people were in that place in time, those ideals may never have come into play. Harriet Tubman may never have had to guide slaves through the Underground Railroad, there might not have even been an Underground Railroad. September 11th might have had no other significance but being the day that follows September 10th. This would have been a completely different world if our siblings had beat us in that race.
As if that’s not crazy enough, suppose we weren’t conceived at the exact time that we were. If you’re currently 16 years old, had your parents waited 2 more years before bringing you into the world, you’d still have to wait 2 years before you could get a driver’s license, because you’d only be 14. Having said that, you were only conceived at the moment you were because of your parent’s time table, which was a result of their parents’ time table, and their parents’, and all the way back to the beginning. But again, if all of those people had lost, there’d be nobody to reply to this post….if it would have ever been written.
