Beware! Long entry ahead...

I just caught The Butterfly Effect on DVD! Thanks Xunhao for lending me! Wasn't really thinking of watching a DVD, with the amount of workload i had. But was kinda feeling like i needed a break and now, i am quite inspired.

It wasn't an excellent film but I kinda enjoyed it. The main gist is that the character goes back in time to try & change things around him. But the transformations often led to undesirable consequences. It really made me questioned the whole big "what if" idea? What if i didn't do this, what if i didn't do that, things will be so different...

We shouldn't look back in the past & regret all the decisions we made. But being human, it's only natural that we wish we could change a slice of our past, dun we?

I was just thinking...

- What if i had just gone straight to poly instead of JC after my Os?

Possibility of present: Working right now maybe in food science field, pursuing my part time degree?

- What if I had been accepted into NIE after my As?

Possibility of present: Started to teach in a primary school, marking lots of scripts everyday...

- What if I had chosen to study Hospi instead of Mass Comm?

Possibility of present: Meet a whole new set of friends and be on a total different career route altogether

The list could just go on... But at the end of the day, it's a simple realisation that God allows things to happen for a reason and purpose. Every different set of experience u go thru just makes you think more of life, learn to deal with it better(hopefully).

Of course, another thought just came up in my head. Our free will & God's intercession in our lives. How much of our free will affect the consquences of the events in our lives?

Alright, i am probably boring you out with this entry but I just had to get it off my chest. This whole concept just blows me off sometimes.