Have you ever laid awake at night, staring at the ceiling, wondering what your life would

be like if you had made different decisions?

If you had gone left instead of right.

If you had said no instead of yes, do you ever wonder how big or small these choices

needed to be in order to affect your life?

But something as simple as stopping for a moment to tie your shoe, send your whole life

in an alternate path.

But something as severe as a job change ultimately bringing you to the same place as if you never

left your previous job.

I'm sure we've all heard of the butterfly effect.

The idea that if you go back in time and alter your decisions, but it alter the course

of your life for better or for worse, like something as small as the butterflies' wings

could cause hurricanes hundreds of miles away.

This idea that always presents itself in fantasy, but we seldom think about it now.

We who are in the present are those butterflies always fluttering our wings, changing not only

our lives and our day-to-day choices, but the lives around us.

They're altered, forever.

I'd always lay awake and wonder, what if until my brain went numb and I eventually drifted

off to sleep?

Just like the butterfly effect of these thoughts only existed inside a bubble of fantasy that

popped whenever the sun rose.

The thoughts plagued me for many nights.

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