Alyssa's Ramblings

At this very moment, somewhere in the universe something is being born and something has died. Someone is saving a life while someone is committing a crime. A family is being created and another is being destroyed. It’s crazy to think that as I sit here in my pajamas typing out a blog post munching on pistachios somewhere someone is freezing and starving or partying in the Bahamas with no care in the world.

The other night I was talking to my friends about at that very moment, what my future significant other may be doing. As I was sitting on a couch talking to my friends watching the Bachelor and full from a Chinese New Year’s feast, he was bopping around doing something or another at the same time. At this very moment he might be doing the exact same thing as I am: procrastinating on homework by doing other homework. Or he might be off killing somebody (hopefully not that. That wouldn’t be very good at all) or playing a video game. Who knows.

But what I do know is that at this very moment I am in charge of what I’m doing and I have the ability to change it. I can choose not to submit this blog post at 3:16 on Monday, February 18, 2013 or wait and change it later. I can choose to run a flailing outside or stay here, comfortably cross legged in my chair. It’s amazing that at this moment where I have so many choices, the choice I make is irreversible. If I go get a glass of water, those minutes are a few that I can’t go back and change. I could’ve written more here or watched a Youtube video or just sat. This sounds butterfly effect-esque but at this very moment, with every small decision I make, I am changing my life and I might be changing someone else’s too.

Is the end a bit tangential? Probably.

But I wonder, what exactly were you doing at 3:24 Monday, February 18, 2013 and what exactly you are doing now, other than reading this fantabulous blog post of course.

Side note: Fantabulous doesn’t have a red squiggle in Microsoft Word. I always thought it was made up. Oops.