What Seemingly Tiny Event Later Changed Your Life (Butterfly Effect) (r/AskReddit)

what is an example of the butterfly effect that happened in your life mum and father split when I had turned 15 father remarried a few years later and with that I had a step family I put a good word in for my now stepsister where I worked she was cool so thought I'd help her out a few months later her friend is looking for work and she puts a good work in for her her friend joins our workplace I now have two children with her friend and couldn't be happier with our own marriage to come very soon literally blows my mind to think that if my parents never split I wouldn't have found my soul mate I only skimmed your post initially and thought you hooked up with your steps Asst read it properly again after that oops drunkenly agreed at a party the night before to go visit my friend's parents with him the next day in a city 200 miles away it turned out another friend lived close by so we all met for drinks that evening and said others friends sister happened to be visiting him for the weekend she came to meet us as she'd not seen me for a few years we got drunk friend left early as he had worked the next day his sister didn't and nine years later we are married with two kids a series of events which had one of any part not happened would have significantly altered the course of my life Thanks alcohol I had a crush on a guy when I was in fifth grade he was a grade ahead of me I finally told my parents about the crush they ended up befriending crushes parents my dad started working for crushes dad my dad borrowed crushes dad's work van for a job and went to return it and then ride his bike home he fell off his bike during that ride and died two weeks later my mom a few months later starts having an affair with crushes dad who was instill his merrie that was 16 years ago and it's still going on around five years ago I was going to live in Australia for around a year as part of a student exchange program I would have been able to leave for Australia earlier but I had troubles organizing my visa the visa couldn't come from my national government for some reason and had to go through the German bureaucracy the delay meant that I had to leave one week later than originally planned I had to reschedule a flights which was a large nuisance at the time the original flight I would have been on would have been flight mh17 from amsterdam to kuala lumpur that was shot down with a rocket above Ukraine by pro-russian separatists everybody on that flight had died I took flight MH 19 instead thanks to the delay caused by slow bureaucracy I would have died had I gotten my visa on time this one is pretty literal but I was walking in a state park when this iridescent blue butterfly set down on the path in front of me I decided to squat down to get a better look at it and as I did a huge 15 feet tree branch fell down a few steps ahead of me on the trail where I would have been had I not stopped to say oh hello butterfly that's the first little butterfly effect I see on this thread lucky you or it's a huge 15 feet tree branch effect six years ago I decided to stay home instead of going to class because I was feeling sick I was bored out of my mind and opened the App Store on my iPad to look for a game to download for some reason I still don't know there was a karaoke app in the recommended section I had never done karaoke never sung in front of anyone before and let anyone hear me sing for that matter it took me about four months just to gather the courage to actually use it and sing because I've always been self-conscious about my voice I made a lot of friends and sang a bunch one of these friends showed me a song just because it was in Spanish my first language from a user I didn't know or follow I knew the song but I never liked it so I didn't give it much thought and didn't sing it the next day I remembered about it and said for it I'll sing it anyways just because it's in Spanish as soon as I heard her voice I melted and fell in love with it she thanked me for joining and that was it fast forward to today I married the woman with the Spanish song I almost didn't sing moved to another country adopted a cat and I'm happier than I've ever been I'm still amazed that the simplest decision I made out of boredom changed my whole life I dropped dead at work 15 minutes after arriving I was given CPR my co-workers and the paramedics got my heart working again three weeks later I'm out of the hospital and making a full recovery had this happened 15 minutes earlier I'd have been in my car and possibly killed someone 15 minutes later I might be walking to get coffee and drop dead in the middle of the street this was a job I had not planned on keeping very long as I freelance and was in the midst of a slow season this job is also the first job to give me health insurance in 15 years every single thing I did in my life up until that point every alcoholic drink every cigarette in college every tokay of pot and nightshift and every cheeseburger got my heart to stop at the best possible moment surrounded by the best possible people kind of more my husband's story but still interesting his family moved to Canada when he was very young every year they would send him to swim camp but one year when he was about 10 something went wrong and he was mistakenly enrolled in hockey camp his family was from a country where ice skating wasn't a thing and they hadn't embraced the whole Canadian culture of hockey not to mention that 10 years old is pretty late to be starting skating let alone playing hockey so they tried to switch him to another camp but the mistake was noticed far too late and every other camp was full it was hockey camp or nothing so they decided to send him this one year only except that my husband ended up loving hockey and being quite good at it and begged to go back the next year from then on he went to multiple hockey camps a year and started playing on a team fast forward many years and I'm out of province staying at a hotel for a hockey tournament my brother was competing in I go down to the hotel pool and it's pretty busy as a lot of other families are staying there for the tournament I end up talking with this one guy and we hit it off and are inseparable for the rest of the tournament I even risked dis oment and cheered when he scored against my own brother the tournament ends and we stay in touch fast-forward many years again and were married with my husband having made a career of playing professional hockey all because he was signed up for the wrong sports camp when I first applied to a community college they rejected me because I had only partially completed high school this was a special College for adults and you didn't need a full high school diploma and I had misread how much I needed to have completed so I gave up on education again seeing as I had been nothing but a failure in academia when I used to go to school my mom was having none of it she called the school and somehow convinced them to let me in probably told him about my crippling depression and how much I needed this turns out I wasn't bad at this academia thing it was seven years ago and I'm finishing medical school next year with all of my research in hopefully residency in neurosurgery after I also met my sir at this school as she was visiting her friend who I went to class with and we have a beautiful son together had my mom not decided to make that phone call I would be living an entirely different life if I would be living at all I wasn't kidding about that depression it was quite severe my dad was working with this woman and her husband had a small business and was looking for cheap office help they talked about their kids while working and dad mentioned I am good with computers this woman's husband was basically looking for someone who can type and follow directions lady asked my dad if I might be interested in a job I interviewed got hired over the next three years they basically taught me accounting on the job I went to college for accounting but ended up switching majors continued to work at this place through all of college handling the busy season by myself and doing low-level IT stuff for them during the slow season graduated moved to another city and got an accounting job and have slowly progressed from peon to manager and now to teach her I'm currently making four times what I thought my max salary would be grew up in a small town and had no intention of leaving and working from home all because my dad happened to work with this woman and was chatting about how I am good with computers set me up for life and the college I went to picked it because my abusive boyfriend said I wasn't smart enough to get in not only was I accepted I got a better scholarship package than he did ended up with a good degree from a great school and my husband they're all because i rage applied and got in abusive boyfriend also helped set me up for life he's in jail now awaiting trial for drug charges nothing to do with the story but please share in my schadenfreude app I I have so much I can't eat it all this happened the other day I went to go pick up some weed from my buddy as I'm driving back home he calls me asking if his keys are in my truck I tell him to hold on I'll pull over and look and call him back I get off the highway as I'm getting off the highway the car ahead of me but to the left merged into my lane and clipped the person ahead of me causing an accident if I had stayed on the highway I would have been involved in that accident most likely my weed dealer losing his keys in my truck led to me not being in a wreck quit my boring office job and turned down a job offer from me 5:00 in London to go live in Australia after visiting for a few days and loving it there there was an issue with my visa which meant it expired two hours before I landed and was invalid I had to fly to another country to get a new one so I flew to New Zealand but the backpacking hostel I was going to stay in was overbooked they offered to put me up in an Asian hostel down the block and I agreed because I just wanted to get my visa and get back to Australia I applied for my visa online as soon as I got to the Asian hostel while I was there I met a superhot Japanese girl we tried to communicate but she couldn't speak English and I didn't know any Japanese so the next day I bought a Japanese phrase book to chat with her we went hiking to bars the beach the movie theatre in three weeks later I got my visa and she came back to Australia with me I got a job selling didgeridoos on the Gold Coast after a stint in Brisbane and she went back to New Zealand after three months because she only had a tourist visa at the end of the year my boss at the didgeridoo place offered to sponsor me for a new work visa but the Japanese girl was asking me to meet her in Tokyo so I quit the didgeridoo job and flew to Japan I spent six months with the girl in Japan as a tourist and met her mates father who was a karate master he offered to teach me karate so I got a new visa for that and stayed later on I married girl had kids got a job at a private high school and bought a home in Tokyo all because I was two hours late getting from the UK to Australia [Music]

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Length: 11min 25sec (685 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 08 2019