alternate lives - by Spencer Chang - spencer's paradoxes

inspiring possibilities or detached-from-reality dangers?

Above the Clouds by Hung Liu I frequently get pulled into trains of thought about my alternate lives. In multiverse movies, this would be my different timelines, ones where I became a movie star or a kung fu fighter (ala Everything Everywhere All At Once) or, for me, ones where my creative yearning manifested in different fields (visual art, dance, acting) or didn’t manifest at all. I imagine a world where I moved to a different city straight out of college, one where I didn’t get that tech startup internship my sophomore year and struggled to “get in” the tech bubble without that golden…

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