To be or not to be..

As a pre-reading activity for "Antigone" today, we shared our own opinions about a variety of statements that relate to themes/events that will come up in the play.. One of them was, "I believe that fate is fixed and destiny doesn't change". In your average classroom you might get some good discussion going about people having faith or experiencing things that made them feel like there is a destiny - but in my class? A discussion invoving quantum physics, parallel universes, the big bang theory, and the butterfly effect. The conclusion? A lesson that leaked into the hallway halfway into lunch, and this illustration awaiting me when I got back to class explaining Can's theory: that the decisions that we make in the present lead to infinite pathways - we will choose one (although in a parallel universe we may have chosen another..) and in that choice we both create our destiny but at the same time live out the possibility that was mathematically (or molecularly?) going to happen anyway.

My kids make my brain hurt in the best way possible.. They amaze me as thinkers and to be able to give them opportunities to stretch their thinking is more selfish than giving as they give me such food for thought! I only wish I had been half as smart as them I was their age... or would that have interfered with my destiny?!

My two cents were that all we have is THIS moment, this one moment, and so because time is an illusion then our fates or destinies are possibly changing along these parallel universes each moment - that's what my theory on deja vu used to be - it's when the "me" on different planes sync up for a moment. Like Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time..