Hi to all, here is something from my writings, I would hugely appreciate any suggestions or inputs. Thanks a lot. (links in the text are of general reference, not leading to anything related to me)
I do not know who started it all -the idea was hugely exploited by many writers and actors, movie makers etc. Idea is what would have happened if certain things in our lives decided to take specific turn or not? Or we could sublime it also into a question –who would you be now if something significant in your life had taken a different twist? What would have happened in a case that certain things in our lives decided to take a different outcome? Would that made a significant change, and how deep? And who would you be now and where if that was the case?
Steve Buscemi has directed the movie, a very funny and depressive in a same way, about a guy from a small American province. In one of his interviews he admitted that he was basically picturing himself and his own life that would have been lived if he never had taken the decision to leave the small town where he was born.
On the other hand, Paul Auster in one interview admitted that one of the main characters in his famous novel - City of Glass was constructed having in mind his own life’s circumstances that had changed rapidly at the moment when his father died, leaving the significant inheritance, that provided the possibility for Auster to became a writer in the first place. If not for that inheritance Auster's magnificent novels probably would not exist as we know them. Everything that happens with the character is basically the Auster’s imagining of himself and of the crossroad turn where his life would have taken him if there was never the money that saved him and made it possible for his art to grow.