[ WP ] You are shown two alternate timelines , both centering around your future . In both you become widely known , only for different reasons . You now have the chance to set things in motion for both timelines based on your actions , but can only do so for one . What do you do ?

The very fabric of time and space opened up for me while I was enjoying my breakfast. I saw myself in two different timelines, as though it were a split screen. They both started off with such small, insignificant actions. 
 
 **On the left** 
 
 I see myself reading the newspaper I hold in my hands, then getting up to write the paper about social reform due in my Government class. I've been putting that off for a bit. I see my professor reading it. I see him coming to me, ecstatic! He wants me to... Campaign? 
 `` You could change the world for the better with this!'' He's saying. 
 I agree. I run for office. I start small, a mayor at first. And I win! My professor, now my advisor, and I are gradually making this city better! I advance. Senator, governor, congress, Speaker of the House! And then... I'm the President of the United States! I'm watching myself give speeches, passing laws that are changing America for the better! And then... I'm shot?! But... But... I was making so much progress! My face is plastered across the front pages of papers, broadcasted on all the news networks. Riots are breaking out. My murderer is killed. War! People are fighting for... for my ideas? It lasts for years and I can see all the lives lost and all the battles and in the end? A utopia. A real, functioning utopia based on my ideas and a statue of me where the house I'm sitting in right now once stood! I saved the world and brought peace to everyone! 
 
 **On the right** 
 
 I see myself at this table, with the newspaper in my hands. I skip the front page and go straight to the comics. I'm reading probably the worst jokes in my life. I could do better than this! I get up and go to my computer. But instead of writing that research paper, I start writing material for a stand up act. I start performing in the campus cafe on stand up nights. Everyone loves it! Pretty soon I'm performing in clubs in the city. I failed my Government class but I'm getting signed on for gigs right and left! Travelling around the state performing! Along the way, I meet her. I meet the most amazing, charming girl I've ever met in my life. She supports me, inspires me. Because of her I get my own late night show on a major network! *Time Magazine* calls me the funniest man alive! My wife and I have two beautiful children. I have it all! Fame, fortune, love! I retire at fifty and my family travels the world. 
 
 
 The split screen of space and time closes up and I'm left staring at the newspaper in total silence. I could read the front page and set in motion a revolution that would bring total peace to the entire world, but I wo n't be alive to see it. Or, I could totally ignore the pain and suffering, turn to the funnies, and create my own amazing life. What do I do? Bring peace or be happy. Bring peace or be happy? 
 I set the newspaper down and take a bite of my bagel. 
 
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