Everything Happened for A Reason (The Butterfly Effect)
Everything Happened for A Reason (The Butterfly Effect)
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Have you ever thought about why you’re here in your current reality? I’ve thought about mine, connecting the dots, and it all makes sense.
Take, for example, my past choice of university — a mix-up with acronyms led me to the wrong one.
Did I regret it?
Yes, initially, I even thought about taking a gap year to get into the correct one. But my mom told me to stick with it since the major is still the same.
Then 4 years later, that silly mistake hasn’t led to a silly life. I’m grateful for good friends, memories, and more.
I even write this article because, in college, I joined a community that taught me to write.
Somehow, it shaped my reality, and I couldn’t ask for anything better.
The Butterfly Effect
Thinking about this, I recently read the story of Edward Lorenz, an American mathematician and meteorologist who examined a weather method in the 1960s.
In his simulation, he rounded decimal in one of the numbers, and the result was unexpected. It significantly diverged from the original and led to a different weather forecast.
He then named this phenomenon “the butterfly effect”, where tiny changes lead to a big impact.
As Jay Asher expressed in his thought:
“If a butterfly flaps its wings at just the right time in just the right place, it can cause a hurricane thousands of miles away. It’s chaos theory, but see, chaos theory isn’t exactly about chaos. It’s about how a tiny change in a big system can affect everything.”
In real history, for example, America won the Revolutionary War because of a mistake made by a German Colonel named Johann Rall.
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When he received George Washington’s attack plan from his subordinate, he ignored it, being busy playing poker.
The result? The German troops were defeated the following night, and the world became a different place.
The thing is, Johann Rall didn’t know the consequences. We’re even surprised at how playing poker could change history.
Reality just happens like dominoes. What falls will touch another, and everything falls.
The Lesson?
Our life is a connection between the past, present, and future. What happens right now is influenced by the past.
Often, we couldn’t understand why until what comes next. But the past always has valuable lessons.
Just imagine when your mom broke up with her exes in the past. It must have been a sad and depressing, but if that hadn’t happened, you wouldn’t be born.
Everything has a reason behind it.
But, it doesn’t mean we can just let things happen. We should give our best today as the reason why tomorrow should be better.
Remember, even small changes matter.
Like, we can choose either slack off or do 5 push-ups every day. Either option will impact our reality.
Doing 5 push-ups may not show immediate results, but who knows, it could make us healthier and save our future life.
So, embrace your current reality; then do your best. Our best days aren’t yet to come if we plan to make them so.
Thank you so much for reading this far. I hope the message is clear and inspiring.
Feel free to share your thoughtful perspective in the comments.
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