Weekly Prompt Story: Billions

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Infinity

By Christopher Munroe

In a nearly infinite universe, there are billions upon billions of stars, surrounded by potentially trillions of planets.

Perhaps some of those planets do contain life. In fact, the law of averages implies that some must.

And yet, only one star in one small corner of the universe, and one planet circling it, with seven billion people inhabiting it, produced you.

Seven billion people on one of trillions of planets circling billions of stars, and yet...

There’s only

One

You

Nonetheless, don’t let that trick you into thinking you matter. Because in a nearly infinite universe, trust me, you don’t.

The Multiverse

Infinite alternate universes exist.

Countless, stretching out like reflections in mirrors placed across from one another.

They reflect, but they refract, each subtly different. In them every action, choice or change, occurs every possible way. If something can happen, then in some universe it did.

Always.

And every choice you ever made, you could possibly make, you make, and don‘t make, and never get the chance to make. And everything you could want to be or have you already have and are, somewhere in this infinite web of universes.

So calm the fuck down. Your problems aren’t a big deal.