"Deep Thoughts"

     I came to the realization today while driving home from a wonderful night of Balboa Practice, that I haven't had "deep thoughts"  on my mind for a very long time.  Years even.   You know, the kind of thoughts about life and your place in it, beyond the day to day minutia of living.  Tonight I completely zoned out while driving and was thinking about the importance of the decisions we all make are to the way life unfolds for us all, how utterly connected everything is.

     For example:  imagine the amount of times where you may have accidentally stepped in the street off the sidewalk without really looking; most of the time you will be ok.  These moments happen and nothing comes from them so you don't think anything important really took place.  You don't think about how that moment is a culmination of all of existence from the beginning of time till that instant.  How if anything in the past billions of years was at all different you might have taken that step 30 seconds before or 10 seconds later, and it would have ended with your death.  And then from there, how every action you take ripples infinitely into the cosmos affecting things with exponentially increasing scope, sometimes immediately and directly and others with incredible subtlety.
   
     Even non human things have such incredible impact on our live.  Yes obvious things like earthquakes and the weather, but even an "insignificant"  ant or wayward roach or that bird on the telephone line outside or that rock that happened to be in the perfect place to affect the course of all history.  Imagine if your death could have been prevented (yes in a million of different ways but to make a point)   if that ant you saw cross the counter top was never there, that extra 2 seconds you spent looking at it  was enough to delay your trip out the door and as you cross the street, if only you took 2 seconds longer or two seconds shorter to leave your house, you would have avoided being hit by that speeding motorcycle that didn't see you trying to cross the street.

      Of course it applies to everything, the people you meet, what you eat, what you do, your luck your lack of it.  the course of history.  It is utterly mind blowing how an uncountable amount of events took place in an amazing chain of circumstance to gave rise to the rippling immensity of occurrences that makes up every moment throughout all of time.  Rube Goldberg like with infinitely more interacting parts.


I needed that.

-Corbett