alternative worlds

Many people imagine the world as if it is guided by a divine power from afar, as if all the worlds in the universe were on a shelf in some grand library of worlds, tended by an omniscient librarian.

Other people imagine an infinite series of possible worlds in an infinite series of parallel universes, separated in time and space by variations in the very fabric of creation.

But I can see only one world, that which I can touch and breath and taste. One life, one chance, one moment in time......