Possibilities

        The "Multiverse" theory of time travel/ the universe in general posits the idea that there are an infinite number of parallel universes. Every single decision you make alters the future of the current timeline; everything from eating Froot Loops for breakfast instead of Rice Krispies to deciding to move to Finland to pursue a career instead of staying in your hometown. If time travel were possible and this multiverse theory proved to be true, you could go back in time and literally do anything. This would cause time to continue on in a new timeline totally different from the one the traveler came from, although that one would still exist in a parallel universe. Although it would technically exist, the traveler would never be able to return to his or her original time line. But, with an infinite number of parallel universes to try, there's got to be one close enough (maybe one where you just end up a half inch shorter or something).

        So now go with me, for a moment believe that this is true. There are an infinite number of you's and me's in an infinite number of parallel universes running on an infinite number of timelines. What are some of the other me's like? So long as my family tree survived long enough for me to exist and all my ancestors met at the correct time and place to get my DNA 100% correct, I'm out there in all different kinds of situations. And I find that fascinating- wondering what all the other potential me's are like.

        In one, all of my grandparents decided to move to Morocco and my parents met and got married there and I'm some sort of Moroccan-European modern poet. And in another, I'm studying inner city development in Pennsylvania while living in a quaint, but roomy house with my best friends and earning my black-belt in jiu-jitsu. In a third I could be exactly where I am today, but with different people making a big impact on my  life (for good or for bad I don't know).

        If given the choice would I choose one of these alternate timelines to live in? One where I could pick and choose everything to be just the way I wanted? The selfish part of me says "Of course." If I could have the "perfect life" with the job, school, car, house, and relationships that benefit me most, why wouldn't I want it? The part of me that looks at the grand scheme of things cannot take what I, one human, want and change everything that God has put in place in the whole of the universe to make myself happy. What if having the house and car I selfishly want causes some to go without food and clean water? I couldn't do that with a clear conscience. I believe we are living in this universe, in this timeline for a purpose. Although it may not be clear in my life, or in your life, yet: He has a grander plan. So be content in this universe that God has so carefully put together and given to each and every one of us.