Chapter 1-2 Summary

One, by Richard Bach, is an interesting book that illustrates the importance of choice in the determination of the path that an individual's life follows. Reality is determined by choices and individuals create their own reality by the choices they make. The individual is responsible for his own choices and different choices lead to different life paths.

Richard is an airline pilot when he first met his wife twenty years ago. They felt that they were the savior of the world and that they were learning how the world works. He and his wife now write together. Richard gave up his many women for Leslie. The alternate Richard, who was the subject of The Bridge Across Forever, had not made the same choice. He had fled to New Zealand from his Laura and now had homes in Auckland, Madrid and Singapore...