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fredericksOkay, this is so weird I felt it had to be plastered in my LJ.
Say you're in a deep (think "soul mate") relationship and then somehow you're suddenly flung into the future. Perhaps 15 years later. Same place, just the future. You meet up with your soul mate; of course, he/she's aged 15 years. He/She is also married or otherwise committed to another person and there are kids involved. You, say, run around with the other person because you have some mission or task to accomplish with them, and the old feelings he/she had for you re-emerge (remember now, y'all are soul mates... or at least a reasonable facsimile). You're torn because this person is your soul mate, only...not. Your alternate dimension soul mate (ADSM for short), if you will. He/she has someone else in their life and young'uns. But he/she obviously still cares for you.
So y'all run around, do your thing, and then you're ready to go back to your past (you were flung into the future with knowledge that you knew how to get back to your own time, and you didn't hesitate to share this knowledge with the ADSM). But...ADSM's looking at you with the most forlorn expression and you're looking back at him/her and you want to kiss him/her just to...you don't know. Argh! The agony!
Do you kiss ADSM and perhaps engage in sexual relations? For clarification, you're unsure if your departure from the "future" timeline will cause a collapse of the dimension or if time will continue and ADSM will have to deal with the fallout of having essentially having an affair with you. Maybe there will be no fallout and ADSM will keep it all as a secret. Maybe ADSM's SO will be understanding. Maybe not. You have no idea. What you do know is that you love the person, but you're just as conflicted as they are.
Again, what do you do? And if you do, uhm, DO ADSM, what would you tell soul mate from your own time when you returned, if anything?
I've been reading comics for the last couple of weeks. It's the only reason I can think of that I've been pondering this all damned afternoon.
ETA - There are more than a few books/movies/comics that deal with this. Can anyone lend me the names of good ones?
Say you're in a deep (think "soul mate") relationship and then somehow you're suddenly flung into the future. Perhaps 15 years later. Same place, just the future. You meet up with your soul mate; of course, he/she's aged 15 years. He/She is also married or otherwise committed to another person and there are kids involved. You, say, run around with the other person because you have some mission or task to accomplish with them, and the old feelings he/she had for you re-emerge (remember now, y'all are soul mates... or at least a reasonable facsimile). You're torn because this person is your soul mate, only...not. Your alternate dimension soul mate (ADSM for short), if you will. He/she has someone else in their life and young'uns. But he/she obviously still cares for you.
So y'all run around, do your thing, and then you're ready to go back to your past (you were flung into the future with knowledge that you knew how to get back to your own time, and you didn't hesitate to share this knowledge with the ADSM). But...ADSM's looking at you with the most forlorn expression and you're looking back at him/her and you want to kiss him/her just to...you don't know. Argh! The agony!
Do you kiss ADSM and perhaps engage in sexual relations? For clarification, you're unsure if your departure from the "future" timeline will cause a collapse of the dimension or if time will continue and ADSM will have to deal with the fallout of having essentially having an affair with you. Maybe there will be no fallout and ADSM will keep it all as a secret. Maybe ADSM's SO will be understanding. Maybe not. You have no idea. What you do know is that you love the person, but you're just as conflicted as they are.
Again, what do you do? And if you do, uhm, DO ADSM, what would you tell soul mate from your own time when you returned, if anything?
I've been reading comics for the last couple of weeks. It's the only reason I can think of that I've been pondering this all damned afternoon.
ETA - There are more than a few books/movies/comics that deal with this. Can anyone lend me the names of good ones?
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Date: 2005-07-17 12:06 am (UTC)I don't know what I would do. Dear Lord...I'd probably just sit around and cry. That's about all I ever do.