The Butterfly Effect...

The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does. (Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The Mathematics of Chaos, pg. 141)

Basically, what that means is that one little thing, one little event can change a person's life forever. It means that there is no fate. Our actions determine our future, our outcome. The one cigarette stick that we do not smoke, the piece of paper that we forgot to throw, everything even the most little of things can and will most probably change our lives. Sure it looks like that it seems a bit too much and improper, but think about it for a while. At first a piece of paper may not seem as much but what if on that piece of paper was the phone number of the girl of your dreams? What would you think about it now?

In Newton's Third Law of Gravity, it states that for every action, there is an equivalent opposite reaction. This further supports my theory of Fate. It doesn't exist. Sure all of these are about science, however science can be applied to everything, such as math. Math is the universal language and science is just a branch of it. (e.g. Physics) You can apply it to anything and everything, once you know it and understand it.

Back to the point. We control our lives. There is no such thing as fate, no such thing as predestination. I have written about it a lot here in my blog. God is out there, I know it, however He/She did not give us a certain preplanned course to go by. God had given us one special gift besides dignity, which is free will.

Free will is a powerful word. Free will has crumbled nations, burned cities and brought men into power and out of power. One specific example is the People Power or as some people call it, EDSA I. Here, people opened their eyes and knew that they can and could make a difference. And they did. With that huge rally that happened along EDSA and other parts of Manila, President Marcos was overthrown. That is free will.

Our free will is what determines our future. The choices that we make, the paths that we alone choose is what really creates our future for us. This is the way we should live our life. Yes, we should praise God for creating us, however we cannot rely on Him/Her to get us out of troubles. We alone can do it.

What tomorrow is, is what yesterday brought. We cannot, I repeat CANNOT change the past, however we can learn from it, and be able to avert ourselves from doing that same mistake again. That is what makes us human, free will, intelect, dignity. These are what we should be thankful for. With those three, we are sculpting our own future. There is no fate, no predestination. We create our own tomorrows.