A long, long time ago

 

A long, long time ago in a little X-ray department far, far away.  A shy sixteen year old girl knocked unannounced on the door with a resume in her hand.    

 

“Please Sir she said can you give me a try? Jobs are so hard to come by.”

The chief said I’m not sure, no experience, but his wife and partner said yes. She stayed with that firm for many years being trained in Medical Typing and Administration.

Her name is Anna and she works as a medical typist and administrator, in a large city practice.

What would have become of Anna and us as we travelled along life’s highway.

John and Anna recently.

 

If you throw a pebble into the pond you do not know how far the ripples will travel.

 

Butterfly Effect

Before it was a film it was a scientific theory.

In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state. The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the theoretical example of a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks before.

Although the butterfly effect may appear to be an esoteric and unlikely behaviour, it is exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill may roll into any of several valleys depending on, among other things, slight differences in initial position.

The butterfly effect is a common trope in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with hypotheses where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.

Basically even the smallest event or issue effects everything else.

Thus the flapping of a butterflies wings can start a cyclone.

·         That extra cup of coffee in the morning:

o   makes you late for work,

o   you have an argument with the boss,

o   you quit,

o   you rush out and fall down the stairs,

o   you are rushed to hospital ,

o   you meet a cute nurse,

o   you end up marrying her,

o   you have three kids,

§  you get the drift.

Think of all the times you have altered course, changed direction. Sometimes it is at your own instigation often at others.

Do not be dismayed at what life throws at you.

 For the Butterfly Wings flap for all.