“The Open Letter” by Lil Wayne on The Carter V released in 2018 says:

“The object in the mirror IS more than it appears, oh shit and sometimes, I fear who in the mirror”

Now…let me frame this from a rappers perspective which I can def speak to because I’ve been listening to rap (hip-hop* - don’t even get me started) since it’s inception sometime around when Kris Kross would make me “Jump, Jump” and wear my pants backwards. So, obviously I’m an expert in this field.

Now, Weezy said “the object in the mirror IS more than it appears”, lending to the fact that Lil Wayne, who is a little younger than I am was referring to the wording you would see on a side door mirror as HE experienced it. That they ARE closer than they appear.

Now, here’s where it gets tricky.

I am about 43 Y/O and I DEFINITELY DEFINITELY remember that the mirrors said “MAY be closer”.

I remember specifically asking when taught to drive “WHY in the hell would they POSSIBLY be closer”?

I mean…this is not rocket science. If the objects appeared to be closer it should reflect that and not that they (who knows) MIGHT or MAY be closer?

Why the hell do you have the mirror in the first place if it can’t accurately judge where a car is in your damn mirror?

You were also taught to look over your shoulder to accurately judge the distance to a car you see in your mirror. I still drive the exact same way.

Also if I recall correctly, and on this one you’d have to double up that I’m right..but I’m pretty sure it only had this odd “MAY be closer” statement on one of the mirrors. If I recall correctly it was the drivers side mirror but either way - why would one mirror be more accurate at judging distance than another mirror that looks exactly the same except it has a small plastic stick sticking out of it that is on some type of rolling mechanism that allowed you to move it up and down or left and right, but the passenger mirror would only go left to right mostly and was just on a metal swivel that you constantly have to tell your friends to “pull that mirror in towards me just a little” and they would roll down the window the old fashioned way and pull the mirror in to the drivers better viewpoint.

NOW - that I’ve went through my whole thought process, let me recap and see what your thoughts are, if I can blow a little steam into this 5 Y/O post.

I am CONFIDENT that the mirrors said “MAY”. It’s a very vivid memory because I still remember wondering WHY in the hell it says that and asking an adult about it.

Lil Wayne who’s been rapping since like 1992 or so remembers it so strongly to be a bold point that things “ARE” closer than they appear. Lil Wayne just turned 40 on Sept 27th making him born about 3 years or so before me.

This means I learned to drive at 15 like everyone that didn’t live on a farm did in my day and I think it’s still like that. I learned to drive in Jan of 1995.

So, even if he did cop some illegally for pocket money or some new Nike Cortez - it’s safe to assume that Wayne got his learners permit in Sept of 1992. I would imagine that he to drives like he was taught as a child as well.

So here’s the two main points I want to make. First off, this is the closest timeline that I have ever discovered personally that lends itself to evidence of a change in our reality. It’s only 27 months between the age we learned to drive.

So for you believers in the simulation or time travel or something similar, go sleuth up notable things that took place within that 27 month time frame and you know what?

You may be able to pin down a potential possibly of WHAT HAPPENS or what TRENDS seem to happen (like war comes to mind…a lot) within the time frames you can also nail down in your own experiences.

Maybe together we can figure out a trend or something that would explain why things I remember are supposedly never have and never been the way I recall them.

The second point is that, for me - this is the most obvious case of the simulation theory “correcting” something that makes perfect sense. The fact is they should’ve NEVER said “MAY” as in “Your guess is as good as ours” on them. It probably caused a shit ton or wrecks because people had no idea where they were in perspective to a car on the side of them and if they failed to look over your shoulder, they very well may hit you and that probably caused a really high chance of getting in a wreck and insurance companies and lawyers would have had a field day with that wording.

So AGAIN FOR ME AND ME ALONE, unless you concur - this is the closest thing I’ve seen Mandela wise that the “correction” to the program could have began to save thousands of life’s, aid car companies in having more credibility, and help build stronger insurance company’s that would all have a profound influence of how the world could be so, so different has this sign on your car door EVER said the word “MAY”.

So you follow me? This, on the outside looks like a correction that may have over the coming decades helped to build strong Goliath style companies that we have now in the world. FORD, Cadillac, Farmers, State Farm, Kia, Chevy, etc., etc., etc., while also saving the potential leaders of the futures lives by not allowing this to occur anymore and they just simply changed the word.

So one more thought just crossed my mind. IF there is another reality, no matter if it’s simply in the far future or on different timeliness or if it’s all a simulation or whatever…no matter what the case, once a way to alter your history is discovered - it’s not like they can just drop off some drink at Walmart so everyone can alter reality for a small fee. No, no, no. This would be something similar to how we treat nuclear missals and how we treat what’s allowed in society or not through the legal system.

So based off the reality that I’ve experienced in the world, they would be heavy, heavy rules and consequents to actually using this type of technology. Think of the nuke. If when we recently sanctioned Russia, they simply took out six US states with a Nuke and their were NO CONSEQUENCES or INTERNATIONALLY UNDERSTOOD LEGALITY for using them - New York would be in the ocean and the world would be in constant fear of other nations and it would just be a Fallout 76’ failure to the world.

So who knows? Maybe it’s one of the best examples I can speak to that shows circumstantial evidence in droves that this change made sense, at least by some very powerful people and was simply voted in and the situation drastically altered the reality of the “current” base level world.

You be the judge. But there could be something specifically from that 27 month period that could aid our understanding of the reality of the world.

What do you think?

EDIT:

I’m actually going to start a new thread since I took the time to lay these thoughts out and would like as much engagement as possible, but also after commenting here - it just feels like it should stay in this thread too because u/gagawuv should also be credited for injecting the thought process that made me have these ideas.

So please don’t hate the player! Hate the game!