this morning i woke up and my mother screamed at me to clean my room.

so i did, and even changed the bed sheets. i found little pieces of lego that likes to fall into every crevice and some small change that amounted to enough money to buy some snacks that i might want to consume, perhaps even a drink.

my room looked a bit neater, then i found a cloth and pretended to wipe my tables and such. there was a little grime on my mouse, due to long hours of surfing the net and my sweaty fingers that caused the dust and dirt to appear.

i was preparing to wipe the grime off the mouse button when i stopped. i froze. it suddenly struck me, that my actions might just have an adverse effect. i wasn't thinking of the miniscule organisms that might be thriving in the grime, but in a much larger scale.

in a recent daydream that i had, i thought of a parallel universe, one that reflects every action that happens in ours. somewhere outside our universe lies another one, exactly the same, but its reality seems to be warped. everything that happens there is a result of something else happening in ours. lets say today i walked down a path and accidentally stepped on an unfortunate snail, right at that moment in the parallel universe a boulder will fall onto a mini cooper, crushing it just as my massive feet did to the snail. or i might accidentally hit a vase and it falls and smashes to a million pieces, a tall, sturdy building in the parallel universe would just collapse.

what im saying is that in the parallel universe is directly affected by the everyday events that happen in ours. however in the parallel universe the results may not seem nonsensical or ridiculous in a way that the beings there are completely unaware that they are actually unable to control their own actions. they may believe that they have their own emotions and their actions are somehow affected by their "human" nature, and they have feelings like love, hate, fear, rage, jealousy, and the like, and they do things like planning for their future, saving money, and even buying insurance. what they don't know is that their very existence may just be affected by just a totally seemingly unrelated action in a far away place.

so if i wiped off that little piece of grime off my mouse button, a million people in the parallel universe might die, due to a tidal wave that decimated a city the size and importance of a major city like new york. i could just left the grime there. it wasn't really getting in the way of anything, and it might even add a better grip on my mouse.

i realized what i was doing. i was simply daydreaming. i have often let my thoughts wander too far, and distract me from doing anything that i was assigned to. so i thought, even if my actions may affect the parallel universe, they are too far for me to even bother about them. i agreed that my thoughts had indeed wandered far and proceed to wipe off the grime, without second thought.

as i went on to continue with my daily relaxation activities i froze again. what if we were the ones whose actions were affected by a parallel universe?