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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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Parallel universes. An allegory.
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Once upon a time, two soon to graduate high school students happened to apply to a small local club in an attempt to win scholarship money for college. They did not know one another, having grown up in different towns. They each wrote essays introducing their respective selves explaining who they were, what they planned to study, and why they could be helped by the money being offered.
One was an attractive and bright young lady that planned to attend a small local private college to study nursing. The other was a well-spoken clean cut young guy, who planned to attend a local community college to study art with a specialization in illustration and cartooning. Their essays were sufficiently impressive that the club board chose those two candidates from among the applicants, and asked them to attend a meeting to interview them in person. Each learned of the other only that night, and their paths physically intersected for the first and only time.
Each was asked to address the meeting, explain a bit about themselves and answer a few questions. After all of that was done, there was some discussion amongst the board members, and finally someone made a motion that the committee award these two fine kids $700 each. Most generous. An investment in all of our futures. Both were elated and each went their separate ways, checks in hand, off to begin their college careers.
Fast forward some years. Both are out of school. One is out because she graduated, took her boards and became a nurse. The other, because he decided that he could do a better job of it by "teaching himself" by reading books.
Interesting to compare how things worked out.
As stated, one became a nurse. She cares for critically ill people with heart problems at a major local hospital. The other is presently running for state representative in his area, and lists himself as an "unemployed pharmacy assistant." Our nurse is gainfully employed and happily married. Our would-be state rep cannot work due to his "electro-sensitvity" that causes him to feel electricity everyplace he goes. Our nurse is working lots of OT, stashing away money to hopefully buy a house. Our rep wanna-be is telling the local newspaper that he is psychic. Our nurse, when she is not working, is keeping her home running and doing things like singing in her church choir. The other guy has indicated that he knows of a "water engine" that runs on (wait for it...) water, that will solve all of our energy problems. He says it is being supressed, but he does not know by who. And that stuff is just the beginning.
As it happened, it looks like that universes are not at all parallel, they are diverging.
Not sure what the moral of the story is, except to say that sometimes those investments pay off, and sometimes, well, not so much.
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thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 2:31 PM
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