 Notoriously, the modal realist David Lewis (1986) contends that people in other possible worlds exist just as much as actual people. These people have no more reason to envy us than we have for envying them. Relative to the world of these potential people, we are the non-actual people. ‘Actual’ is an indexical term on a par with ‘here’ and ‘now’. I can pity my freezing friends in Canada for not being here now in the mild winter of Austin, Texas. But that is because the Canadians could travel to Austin. There is no travel between possible worlds. According to Lewis, no object exists in more than one possible world. When you imagine yourself not existing, you are thinking about a possible world that resembles the actual world except there is no counterpart of you. Your existence in the actual world is not a matter of luck. The feeling that you've won the lottery for existence arises from the striking resemblance between the actual world and a possible world in which some other child is conceived by counterparts of your parents.