Life's little big moments
When we look back, think about how things ended up the way they did, about how we reached where we are today you'll be surprised about how it’s not what you thought to be the really big moments in life that are responsible for your current state. It’s the seemingly irrelevant, utterly insignificant moments that changed your life forever.
Like the unhappy husband who decided to watch a little more TV instead of going to bed although his wife surprisingly wanted to have sex that night. Though his interest was piqued by his wife’s approaches resentment from many months of fighting and a little laziness prevented him and by the time he got to bed she was already asleep. Things got worse and they eventually split up, whereas in an alternate universe he went to bed early and they spent the next few weeks in the happy afterglow of a night of some rollicking love making long enough to realize that they were going to have a child after which their determination to make the marriage work somehow kept them together long enough to realize that there are bigger problems in life than a nagging wife or an emotionally detached husband.
Or like the teenager, sitting at home the day before his college counseling session where he has to choose which college and course he wants to do, who receives a call from a friend who inadvertently tells him that one of the two colleges he had shortlisted was crap. The next day he goes and chooses the other one, and everything that happens to him from that point on, his best friends, the great times, his first job, and the type of person he ends up being was decided by that phone call. (True story this)
Or like the software engineer, who if he hadn’t sat up for most of the night playing games on the PS3 and also have to sleepwalk through a really bad day at work wouldn’t have been depressed enough as he rode back home on his bike to be thinking about what his next rant on his blog would be about and probably would’ve noticed the big truck that suddenly cut in to his lane…
The really big moments in life are the small ones.
Like the unhappy husband who decided to watch a little more TV instead of going to bed although his wife surprisingly wanted to have sex that night. Though his interest was piqued by his wife’s approaches resentment from many months of fighting and a little laziness prevented him and by the time he got to bed she was already asleep. Things got worse and they eventually split up, whereas in an alternate universe he went to bed early and they spent the next few weeks in the happy afterglow of a night of some rollicking love making long enough to realize that they were going to have a child after which their determination to make the marriage work somehow kept them together long enough to realize that there are bigger problems in life than a nagging wife or an emotionally detached husband.
Or like the teenager, sitting at home the day before his college counseling session where he has to choose which college and course he wants to do, who receives a call from a friend who inadvertently tells him that one of the two colleges he had shortlisted was crap. The next day he goes and chooses the other one, and everything that happens to him from that point on, his best friends, the great times, his first job, and the type of person he ends up being was decided by that phone call. (True story this)
Or like the software engineer, who if he hadn’t sat up for most of the night playing games on the PS3 and also have to sleepwalk through a really bad day at work wouldn’t have been depressed enough as he rode back home on his bike to be thinking about what his next rant on his blog would be about and probably would’ve noticed the big truck that suddenly cut in to his lane…
The really big moments in life are the small ones.
posted by fahd at 12:01 PM
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