Remember that time you ate that spicy orange just before you went to bed on the night before the big race? Oh, that weird dream you had about the 2016 presidential election. When you woke up you couldn't quite remember the excruciating details, but after reading "On Self-Reliance" and "A Sound of Thunder" it's all coming back to you now.
The dream started badly. You were in line with your family at a farm waiting to be sent to rehab. Everywhere you looked there were posters of president-elect Shrek, looking like a crazy wildebeest who could eat a whole bagel.
Suddenly, there was Ralph Waldo Emerson telling you, "This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars." You realized that you have something to contribute to the world so you decided to rap. But it wasn't easy. First you had to put on a fancy snap back and cane and then you had make a gun to go back in time to the gazebo so you could convince people to learn about the candidates and the taxes on the rich..
But right there in the gazebo there was a giant troll and it started swinging at everyone. People started to faint. You grabbed a megaphone from a nearby box and yelled time will always pass, it won't wait for you . Everyone stopped and listened, so you kept going.
People! Everything we do now is going to have an impact. You decide the outcome. There is a thing called the butterfly effect where if you tamper with one small thing in the past the whole future will have changed. So who says the decisions you do now aren't changing the future dramatically. It only makes sense that all our interactions are changing everything that we will make of the future. Big changes like Donald Trump waking up one day and saying he will run for president. Maybe a huge change like in the story " A Sound of Thunder" where they travel back in time and Eckels changes one small thing but that changes the whole future, Eckels had killed a butterfly and that had an effect on the outcome of some things in the future. Ray Bradbury definitely used a butterfly to allude to the butterfly effect. The butterfly effect came from the idea that a flap of a butterfly's wings will have huge effect on the air and can change alot of things like possibilities of hurricane. You see what you do now is impacting the very nature around youso be more wary. Be more mindful of your choices. As Emerson would say be self reliant or be courageous. You also need to have the trust that your decisions are the right ones. Don't let others influence your decisions. It is kind of nice knowing what you do truly does affect things. So be impactful in the good ways that you can. You might not know it but you are making a difference.
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