Parallel Universes

I sometimes think about the people that I've met, and if I've affected their lives in the smallest possible of ways. Perhaps cast an idea, or doubt, deep in their mind, made them change slightly, made them cherish something they otherwise would have overlooked, maybe made them hate something, or just made them think.

I wonder about, if I somehow created a ripple in their existence, if that ripple could branch over to someone else's and so on and so forth. If this is in fact a possibility, then theoretically, I have affected ever single human in some way or another.

One individual has great potential. One person can change the course of history that has already been written in time. One event in a persons life could very well change the outcome of great events, and the events of those that surround them. We are all very vulnerable and fragile to the smallest sliver of change.

Everything you do affects everything else. Every action you do, or do not, creates a new pararel universe, a new universe created for the latter. You live in the universe of the now, the present, the universe with the decision that you have already chose, the only universe that you will ever know. You will never know the universe of a decision you weren't going to make.

For example, I could choose to throw a loose brick 4 floors down from my apartment window, striking and killing a passerby. This would be my decision, but along with that decision, is every other possibility that I could have chosen from. These alternatives would be created in a new separate parallel where I would do them and would face the consequences of my action that I made, or did not make in that new parallel. Doors keep opening, actions take place, more doors keep opening, doors and actions continue to create each other.

Loosely stated, a star looks different from different points in Earths orbit. My star would be the action I have chosen, and the different points of Earths orbit would be the other possibilities and parallels.

I guess I'm starting to ramble, and theorizing too much. The point of this post is that I sometimes wonder what it would be like if I chose differently with certain things. How the outcome would be because of that. Basically, if I have chosen differently would my life be as good as it is currently, and if I would still be as kick ass as I am now.