In this monologue from the play, “Many Worlds”, Sharon muses to her partner about alternate versions of their reality.
SHARON: You know the theory, right? The many worlds thing? Where every choice we make splits reality into a new branch. So somewhere out there, there’s another version of us. One where I didn’t storm out last night. One where you didn’t raise your voice.
I think about them sometimes. The other us. Maybe they’re happier. Maybe they’re sitting on a couch right now, eating leftover pizza, laughing at something dumb on TV. Or maybe they’re worse off—barely speaking, barely looking at each other. I don’t know.
But it’s like, when we were good—really good—I could feel them. Like they were close. Right next door, almost. I’d catch glimpses of them in the way you smiled, or the way we fit so perfectly in the quiet moments.
And now… I don’t feel them at all.
Do you? Feel them? Because I need to know. I need to know if this version of us is worth sticking with. Or if there’s another us out there, sitting at this same table, smiling, holding hands, not feeling…
…lost.
Because that’s what this feels like. Like we’re lost. Wandering around in some version of reality where we’re still together but not really. Like we took a wrong turn somewhere and just… stayed there.
But if we’re lost, can’t we find our way back? Doesn’t that version of us, the good one, still exist somewhere? And if they do… can’t we borrow something from them? A map, or a sign, or… or maybe just hope that this doesn’t have to be the end?
I don’t want this to be the end.
Tell me you don’t either. Please.
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