Browsing Reddit’s endless threads of interactive experiences never leaves a dull day, especially when you find an intuitive list of people who have been directly impacted by The Butterfly Effect, an occurrence where the manifestation of a small event in the present causes the possibility of wildly different results elsewhere. Here are three people who had their lives completely changed due to happenings of The Butterfly Effect.
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“I had to call my heart surgeon to give him my new insurance numbers. I had only just gotten them because the person who had them had the flu and was not getting back to me. As soon as I got my numbers, I called surgeon. The receptionist said, “Oh, hey. We just had a cancelation for this Friday. Do you want it?” Of course I wanted to get it over and not wait another month. Decided to take the open heart surgery cancelation appointment (a month before my actual appointment), and well, surgeon said thank goodness I did because once he got a look inside, he realized I would not have survived to the original appointment date.
So, if the insurance lady didn’t have the flu, I would have gotten those numbers a lot sooner, and never gotten the offer to have the surgery when I did.
Someone else’s flu saved my life.”
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“When I was in 8th grade (13 years old) I had a really long bus ride home so would pass the time by reading. One day I faced the very serious situation of nothing to read and a minute to grab something in the library, and for whatever reason I grabbed a book on astronomy. That book was amazing and grabbed me like nothing else had before. I remember being excited to realize every astronomer on Earth was 13 years old once too, and that was a career you could actually do, even if you were from Pittsburg.
Anyway, today I am a professional astronomer who studies gigantic space explosions for a living. There was a lot of work to get from that moment to this one, but I’m always grateful that I picked up that library book!”
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“Under pressure from my sister (“you’re young! You need to have fun!”) I went out to a concert and then to a bar after. Had this girl I barely knew wingwoman me to a cute guy playing pool, next thing you know I’m celebrating my three year wedding anniversary.
I didn’t want to go out that night but did due to pressure from my sister. He didn’t want to go out that night, but his friend wanted to play pool. And I literally can’t imagine my life now if I hadn’t had that random girl wingman me. Our paths never ever would have crossed otherwise. Of course it took me a long time to admit to my sister her role in the whole thing.”
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