A Thought I Had (About) Today

It’s absolutely terrifying to think that if some of my friends had been born a dozen or so centuries ago they might have died, or not even have been born. To think that if the luck of the draw regarding when they had been born was even slightly different no one would have been able to meet these incredible quirky people.
I wonder if I would have survived back then. I like to think that if I was born, I would have been able to adapt to what the world would have been back then. But then again, there’s nothing to say that I would have had to adapt, that my entire self would have been shaped to be completely different before I was old enough to decide for myself who to be.
I guess it also says something very clear about me, that I am of the belief that it would be possible for me to have been born in a different time. That despite my belief in science, I don’t find it odd to think of myself, in a completely different culture, but still holding the same personality and character that I find so key to my sense of self. I wonder what the odds would be that I would find myself in a period that I found myself completely unsuited to. I wonder if I lived in that different time, if it happened to be in the future, what I would think about the possibility of living in the time I currently am in.

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