Butterfly Effect
May 24th 2007 02:54
The "Butterfly Effect", or more technically the "sensitive dependence on initial conditions", is the essence of chaos.
Decisions, people, acquaintances, heartbreaks, death, birth... maybe, we wouldn't be where we are right now if it hadn't been for all that. It signifies the saying "everything happens for a reason". Well maybe, I had wished some hadn't happened at all. But maybe, they did happen to ricochet me to the destined path. Maybe, I could've had more control over the outcome or choices. Ultimately, the "maybes" are endless.
But one thing's for sure, each minute or miniscule choice or decision or stand point or opinion, creates a ripple affect to everything else. Our demeanour, perception, outlook, attitude, feelings, mindset... everything. However, it is almost impossible to always be thinking about the consequences of every decision we are to make on a daily basis. That would just be insanity and paranoia! I say, life is all about mistakes. We make them, learn from them and live with them. It makes us the person that we are now.
Surely, this rules out the inevitable or necessary fate to which a particular person is destined - a predetermined course of events considered as something beyond human power or control. If life is how we make it out to be, having it already "written in the stars" is inapplicable.
I think, "fate" is used merely to be a form of blame that we use when something goes wrong or not as planned. That we are incapable of accepting our lapse or misdeed, that we hold "fate" responsible for it.
Having said that, I do not claim to be a non-wrong doer to "fate". There would be many occasions where my culpability for wrongdoing or failure is inevitably due to and because of "fate".
I can't help it, I'm only human...
Decisions, people, acquaintances, heartbreaks, death, birth... maybe, we wouldn't be where we are right now if it hadn't been for all that. It signifies the saying "everything happens for a reason". Well maybe, I had wished some hadn't happened at all. But maybe, they did happen to ricochet me to the destined path. Maybe, I could've had more control over the outcome or choices. Ultimately, the "maybes" are endless.
But one thing's for sure, each minute or miniscule choice or decision or stand point or opinion, creates a ripple affect to everything else. Our demeanour, perception, outlook, attitude, feelings, mindset... everything. However, it is almost impossible to always be thinking about the consequences of every decision we are to make on a daily basis. That would just be insanity and paranoia! I say, life is all about mistakes. We make them, learn from them and live with them. It makes us the person that we are now.
Surely, this rules out the inevitable or necessary fate to which a particular person is destined - a predetermined course of events considered as something beyond human power or control. If life is how we make it out to be, having it already "written in the stars" is inapplicable.
I think, "fate" is used merely to be a form of blame that we use when something goes wrong or not as planned. That we are incapable of accepting our lapse or misdeed, that we hold "fate" responsible for it.
Having said that, I do not claim to be a non-wrong doer to "fate". There would be many occasions where my culpability for wrongdoing or failure is inevitably due to and because of "fate".
I can't help it, I'm only human...
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