Shortsighted

Everyone has a story. Everyone. No matter how much a person says that they have lived a boring life; no matter how small or insignificant their story might seem to other people; the fact that it meant something to them is what matters. This shortsightedness is why I think that many people are too quick to file for divorce. They base their decisions on what is happening now rather than what brought them together in the first place. They hinge their decisions on the bad rather than the good. They don't go back and remember all the happy times like when they were first dating, the moment of proposal and the wedding day and night. All they can see is the negative aspects of their significant other rather than the positive and think that they are stuck with the negatives rather than telling themselves they can fix it which, most of the time, can be done. If this person really loves the other (which I hope they do) they should be able to understand what is wrong or if they don’t, they can just do whatever they can to help out the situation. People tend to take bad experiences as "a stone in my path I have to move out of the way" rather than an important learning experience.

Back on stories, I like to see life as one giant book. Memories are nothing but stories. After they happen, the most merit from an event come from first-hand experiences. That’s all the past is: stories. The only thing that isn't set in stone is the future. The present is the only thing that we can be sure of and the future is constantly rewritten. One person's impact on the world is so great that any decision a person makes effects the entire world. Essentially, the butterfly effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Effect) is the biggest factor when someone is feeling like they don't have an impact on the world. It's like this: let's say that one day you decide that you don't feel like going to work. That day, there is a fire at the building because you had a faulty wire in your cubicle that started the fire that could have been easily put out by you. Or, other way around, let’s say that fire was unstoppable by you and if you came into work, you would have died! That's an extreme example, but when you think about it, if you were to go through a day and then go through the exact same day again but before you did anything you waited a minute, the world you would encounter would be completely different. You would come when a different song was on the radio, come in on a different part in a conversation and so on. This might seem to be irrelevant and slight fluctuations in space-time, but I think some of the people who were running late on September 11, 2001 would like a word with you.