My Thoughts

Intersections

    If all days were the same, then we would get bored yes, but we would be safe. Many of us humans look for safety in repetition, which acts like a wall; like going to school, every day you have the classes you go to and the people you talk to, and you stick too that schedule and group. If one day you just suddenly stopped doing the same thing you did before many people would notice, if you stopped going to the water fountain at the same time as someone else, they would notice and they would wonder, "where did they go?" and you wouldn't be able to answer that. Every person literally changes the world with what they do, no matter how small the actions may seem they could cause huge things to change. If  you speed up at an intersection when  the light turns yellow, you could get into an accident, or someone else could. The butterfly effect controls all of  our lives. In the "Wheel of Time" books by Robert Jordan, they are always talking about how the wheel turns and how the ages pass and how the wheel does as the wheel wills. I think that that thought process really applies to human life in the no-fiction world, if we see things happen that we didn't like or even if we did like them, we shouldn't dwell on them, because the world is constantly changing and the world you see today could be completely different tomorrow. Every day we should realize that we have control of our lives to a certain degree, like if we speed up or if we stop, but at the same time we have so little control of our lives that it is scary to think that if we stay doing what we normally do, things could change, and if we change things things could change; we have no control of what the driver in front of us will do, if they speed up or slow down is their choice, we can only control ourselves. If we wanted to have nothing change then we would need to freeze the entire planet all at once, and stay like that forever, but life would become so boring if we did that. We humans want change without changing, we wish that the world was at peace, but not everyone does something about the things we want; we wait for someone else to do something that we can support. When you wake up in the morning think about how lives can be turned upside down even if you don't change what you do on a daily basis, so try a new fruit or say "hi" to someone who you haven't talked to in a while. Have fun while you can, just stay as safe as you can.