Stuck in the Worst Timeline?

Elizabeth Park
4 min readJul 3, 2024

Waiting sucks.

Pensive woman gazing at the camera
Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-white-turtleneck-shirt-4691231/

What the everlasting FUCK is going on in the world? How did we end up in this timeline?

And what if this isn’t even the worst one?

And besides the global timeline, what about our personal lives?

It’s rough out here — the cost of housing, food, insurance, medical services, everything.

We’re wrestling with mental health challenges, war, division, the election, violence, conspiracies, road rage, teacher pay, censorship, disinformation, the way people treat animals, scammers, rage bait, the climate, angry Swifties.

The idea of CHANGING THINGS, of making it somehow have turned out differently, is riveting.

Doctor Who goes into the Tardis and swooshes back into the past and makes it okay.

Glitches in the matrix…timeslips…the Mandela effect. I love those stories of driving through fog and ending up in a small town fifty years earlier, only to return later and it’s not there or is abandoned and run-down.

Are we living in a simulation?

If your algorithms are giving you the dark news, you’re probably overwhelmed. It’s a lot.

And if you feel personally stuck, then life is probably a nightmare for you every single day.

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Elizabeth Park

Van Gogh fan girl, loves good questions and people who listen; Spiritual life coach for anyone exhausted by narcissists salvagingyourstory.com