Your Sacred Timeline
How Multiverse Theory, Marvel, and Modern Physics Help Us Break Free from Expectations
Some lives are gifted to us before we ever take our first breath, scripted by tradition, parents, or the people who say they know what’s best. The most honest thing you can do is walk away from the timeline they wrote for you and write your own instead.
The Timeline I Was Meant to Follow
Before I was even born, there was a path. My family imagined I would marry Lin, a boy I’d known since childhood. Our parents were close. We were two years apart. It all made perfect sense on paper. Our union would have been a symbol of legacy, loyalty, and generational pride.
Sometimes I still imagine that version of my life, the one that would have kept the families happy and the traditions intact. In moments of quiet reflection, it feels like the sacred timeline. The one I was supposed to stay in.
Choosing My Own Timeline
I didn’t want that life, so I left Asia for America. I chose my own discomfort over their idea of stability. Lin married someone else and now has two children. And sometimes I wonder, if I had surrendered to the life chosen for me, would I be happier? Would it have hurt less?
That question assumes their version was the real one. That it had some divine right to exist over mine. Like in Loki, where the Time Variance Authority calls one version of reality the Sacred Timeline and erases everything else. It turns out, the sacredness was never real. It was just someone else’s control dressed up as fate.
Who Decides What’s Prime?
In science fiction, the prime timeline is often portrayed as the original, correct version of events. But even in physics, things are less certain. Quantum multiverse theory suggests that infinite timelines exist simultaneously, branching out with every decision. There’s no central, fixed reality. Only choice, observation, and possibility.
So who decides what’s sacred? The answer is no one. Or maybe just you. Your timeline becomes sacred the moment you claim it as yours.
The Variant Is the Truth
Looking back now, I see clearly. That other life, the one with Lin, with approval, with safety, may have been my family’s dream, but it wasn’t mine. I wasn’t a villain for leaving it behind. I was just a variant, a deviation from someone else’s expectations.
And like Marvel’s multiverse reminds us, the variant isn’t wrong. It’s simply free. Superman’s clone, born from his DNA, wasn’t any less real. His consciousness was separate. His journey, his own. What makes a life valid isn’t its origin. It’s its awareness.
You Are the Center of Reality
In every multiverse theory, from Hugh Everett’s quantum mechanics to string theory speculations, the self is always central. Your perception creates your world. And while that may sound mystical, it’s also the foundation of how reality functions in physics. The observer changes what is seen.
So if you’re living a life that others disapprove of or don’t understand, remember this. The moment you made a choice true to yourself, you birthed a new timeline. One that belongs entirely to you. You are not broken. You are becoming.
The Power to Choose Again
The sacred timeline was never sacred. It was inherited, scripted, and upheld by people who loved me but didn’t know my soul. Now I do.
And if the multiverse is real, and physicists believe it might be, then there are infinite versions of me. Some who stayed. Some who never questioned. But this one, right here, is the version who chose truth.
And that makes this the most powerful timeline of all.