Did I make the right decision? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Anouchka Grose
This has to be at the more abstract end of "things to ask the internet". If you wanted a standard, hippy-humanist answer such as: "It's right if it feels right, and wrong if it feels wrong", you'd probably just ask a reasonably kind and thoughtful person. The fact that this question is addressed to a giant information network that knows absolutely nothing about you or your circumstances surely means it's serious. That it's also asked post factum suggests a mischievous approach to time and reality. Perhaps you're hoping to be reminded that string theory argues for the idea of a multiverse in which parallel realities can co-exist.
While you may fear that you married the wrong person, bought the wrong car, or shouldn't have committed a crime, don't worry because some physicists may argue that there are infinite versions of you out there in polyamorous, ambisexual relationships, driving very cheap or expensive vehicles while sometimes obeying the law. Meanwhile you can screw up as much as you like in the happy knowledge that one of you is bound to be getting everything right.
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