About a year ago, I was at the darkest point of my life. The guy I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with dumped me and I was stuck with no sense of self all alone. I remember before work one day, I was sitting in my car, and a butterfly landed on the hood of my car. As I was crying, I remember looking at this butterfly as it looked at me and it had a torn wing. I thought to myself, "wow, that really feels like me. Torn and tattered wings but still managing to fly somehow." Every day since then, I receive butterflies.
They come to me when I'm sitting at my desk in front of my bedroom window, or when I'm driving home from school or work. I consider them God's little messages to me that no matter how my day is going, that He is there and He is listening to my struggles and my pain and letting me know that I WILL get through whatever is happening.
The Butterfly Effect can be defined as the idea that smaller changes made in your life soon lead to a larger growth in the long run. So for example, taking my scenario, the heartbreak that I experienced was a minute change (even though it seemed large to me) and all of the actions proceeding that minute change then led to me becoming the more strong, independent and finally finding myself as a woman, later down the road.
That's the beauty of change. Every single decision or event that happens in your life, sets another in motion. The classes you decide to take or try might spark your love for a different subject and you find your calling in life. A simple hello to a stranger and that person down the road might just be your maid of honor or your soulmate.
The Butterfly Effect is a perfect example of why we should find beauty in every experience we go through while we grow up and change as individuals. No experience, whether that experience was good, bad, traumatizing or mediocre, goes without setting more in motion.
You are the author of your story. Now whether you write in pencil, use the hell out of your eraser or decide to write in pen, it doesn't matter. Every single decision you make will affect your life, and possibly someone else's in some sort of light.
What energy do you want to set in motion? The energy you put forth with your decisions will impact you and those around you. They will affect how the rest of your life plays out, your ideology and beliefs about the world around you and who you are as a person.
So just remember, if you feel like you have hit rock bottom, or you're too high to ever come down, that this is happening for a reason. Your life is set into motion and shaped by the experiences you endure, good or bad. Let them change you. Believe in the Butterfly Effect.
