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THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT...

makes you more powerful than you know.

By Christopher Jay AgudoPublished 4 years ago 5 min read
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You create ripples in reality.

It's simple.

Yet, you don't even know, do you?

You are like the most powerful person alive.

You... yeah YOU, the reader, reading this now.

Don't believe me? Awe geez. Well, let me inform you just how this is.

Have you ever heard of the Butterfly Effect? If you haven't, it is a concept where the flapping of a butterfly's wings can cause a tornado, or a tsunami, near by or anywhere for that matter. It is this idea that resonates and vibes with the words, "every action has a reaction." Have you ever heard someone say that phrase? Well it is a legitimate truth.

"Blah - Blah - Blah ... whatever. This is dumb."

Well if you don't want to gain some next level brain knowledge stuff about yourself and reality... then that's on you, but i assure you, you are going to want to keep on reading to understand just how you are the most powerful person alive. Don't throw away this golden nugget of truth, read on.

As I was saying.... every action has a reaction and there is a concept that the flapping of a butterfly's wings can cause some sort of weather disturbance.

This is so very, very important to understand because this alludes to the notion that when YOU do something or say something (some sort of action), you are causing someone or something else outside of you to react (by default).

For instance:

You say something funny, someone laughs.

You hit someone, someone either gets angry and retaliates or cries and runs away.

You do anything or say anything to another person, they are going to react in some sort of way.

That is the idea, that every action has a reaction.

When you turn on the fan, the fan cools you off with the breeze it generates.

You turn up the heat on the thermostat, you begin to feel warm.

There are countless examples to this and i'm not about to write a book about this, I believe you get what I'm trying to say now. Every action has a reaction.

The flapping of the butterfly's wings pertains to you as well.

You are the butterfly.

"But how? I'm just a random nobody that is living life with a 9 to 5 job that no one seems to notice anyway. I'm not causing ripples in reality. I'm just me."

That's where you are wrong. You are going to place your eyes upon 2 examples. 1 simple and 1 complex...

Simple Example:

You crack a joke to cheer someone up. They laugh and smile. They were having a bad day. You lifted their mood and made them feel loved.

Complex Example:

You decide one day to hold the door open for a handicap person. They appreciate it because they have been having a bad day. You just lifted their mood. You didn't know it, but that handicap person is the child of a judge. Later that day, the child (handicap person) tells their dad (the judge) that someone held the door open for them and that made them feel special, explaining that everyone else that day was treating them in a rude way. Hearing this, the judge (dad) decided later while at a court hearing to not be rude to any of the court members, as he usually is. Because of that, in one way or another it causes one of the court members to change their mind about ending their life later on that day. That person that was going to end their life, which is no longer going to, ends up applying to enter Harvard University. They get accepted and after 8 years of attending Harvard University they earn their degree and license to be a practicing scientist involved in the research and creation of vaccines and cures for diseases and viruses. They happen to get a nobel peace prize award because after 2 years of doing the work they have been doing, they discovered the cure for something that has ruined the lives of millions upon millions of people throughout history and till the present day.

Wow, that was complex.... but believe it or not something like this can happen and probably has happened, give or take certain parts of the story and replacing events and results and outcomes with other ones, but do you get it? In this complex example, all you did was hold the door open for a handicap individual and because of that, a cure was developed years later, down a sequence of events that stemmed from you being kind to a handicap person one day, in your past.

That is indeed causing ripples in reality, and of course, perhaps you may never encounter any sort of complex scenario like that example, but you never know. You can do something wherever you live, and a sequence of events can occur from whatever you had done and some time later cause a shift somewhere else, maybe even across the world with someone you don't even know.

You are the butterfly. This is what makes you more powerful than you even know. You can create minor change in your surrounding environment, or minor change anywhere. You can create major change in your surrounding environment, or major change anywhere. You can also create no change, but I doubt it, because we are always doing something and because of that, by default through doing something or saying something, reactions take place.

Do you get it now? For all you know, you can be the catalyst to some intense change, or were the catalyst in your past that caused something good to happen later on, that you are not even aware of.

And yes...

just as good reactions can occur, so can bad ones, but with that being said...

be mindful of how you treat others and what you say or do. You just never know what type of reaction and sequence of events you are creating.

So go on... you Powerful person. With this type of power comes great responsibility. Make ripples in reality. Bye Bye.

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About the Creator

Christopher Jay Agudo

I have been born. I have lived life. I have gained experience. I am a writer. Read my words and you will journey along a vast sea of thought. Be prepared to have your mind blown with all of the stories and articles I end up writing. Enjoy.

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