Have you heard of the Butterfly effect?
For those who haven’t, this effect states that through the a set of actions and consequences, a butterflies wingbeat here can cause a hurricane on the other side of the world.
This hurricane only happens because that butterfly beats its wings at the exact time and place to cause this hurricane, through a series of seemingly unrelated events.
One thing affects another and, like dominoes, the effects fall, stack on one another, and create an avalanche out of nothing that seems to relate.
This effect works in life as well.
A positive action, a smile, or a random act of kindness is able to create an avalanche of positivity somewhere a thousand miles away.
This thought, more than anything else, motivates me every time I think about it because it proves that I can change the world.
Well… let me rephrase that a little bit: It proves that I can change a world.
I may never become a great thinker like Einstein, may never be as influential as Gandhi or as innovative as Steve Jobs.
I may not become a political leader, a historic figure or someone else that changes the whole world, but I can change a whole world.
Because I smile, work hard, try hard and do my best I create chance after chance to change someone’s world forever.