Rebuilding Rob

Editor’s Note:

For context in 2026: In this post, “X” refers to X1, and “LTR” refers to X2.

I’m a sci-fi and comic book geek from way back in the day. So alternate universes are something I think about a lot. But instead of thinking about myself in just one alternate universe, I think of myself and life differently. My life would’ve been in a handful of scenarios.

I wonder sometimes about my marriage. And if X and I had worked things out, I would be getting ready to celebrate my 23rd wedding anniversary. I don’t think we would’ve had more children, but who knows?

What if, during the time that I wasn’t teaching, if I had gone back to school and completed my master’s degree in English, or in education administration? Would I be teaching in a college now? Would I be a principal at a middle school or high school instead of getting back in the classroom?

From time to time, I wonder what would’ve happened with me and LTR if I had just decided not to visit my son that year for Christmas. But, I realize that relationship was doomed throughout the multiverse.

And once we did get back together, how would things have turned out if, during the holiday season of 2014, we went ahead and had a quick wedding shortly before The Old Man passed?

Alternate universes are fun to think about. Look at how many times the Star Trek franchise has revisited the “mirror universe.” But even as I read this, I’m realizing that things happened the way they did for a reason. I have to think that the scenarios I listed above would play out exactly the same in any reality.

And to be honest, I don’t think that I would want to live in a world where any of the things I mentioned above played out differently.

Could’ve, should’ve, would’ve…

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