Time, Chaos Theory, and Recovery

I just finished reading A Time Traveler's Wife.  It was a wonderful story with many dimensions.  I wonder how the author wrote such a complex book.  She is correct in saying that time is basically irrelevant because it doesn't really exist.  This is proven by basic physics (http://tinyurl.com/2k4fae).


I like stories about time travel.  They help me feel that maybe I could go to a time where I fit in a little better or that I could find the man I love when he is a little older and is finished with the foolishness of youth that sometimes takes people longer to grow out of than we would like.  They make me feel like the mistakes I make can be changed or that the chances I have missed can be gained.  But with all things there are rules that must be followed...like in The Butterfly Effect.




In both stories, the time traveler has little or no control over where/when he travels to.  But the significance of where/when he appears is what truly makes the story.  Their minds seem connected to the best and worst times in life.  Dropping in to visit people from their childhood and their beloved family members create the meat of these stories and told us that these men were sentimental despite any faults they might have.  Revisiting failures to try to make them right, only to discover that it changes the future too much and in a negative way or to find that the change in his actions changed nothing about the future.


Whether your own sense of time is linear or you are reading this blog visiting a computer 30 years in your own future, we must all be conscious of the Butterfly Effect.  The Butterfly Effect (part of chaos theory  http://tinyurl.com/yqw3w) says that the beating of a butterfly's wing in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas.  Or to phrase this in simpler terms, your words and actions, my words and actions, influential public figures words and actions have an effect on what happens in the world.  As leaders, mentors, and teachers we owe it to our listeners to choose our words carefully and to apologize when we speak negatively.

We need to give power to positive words and positive thinking.  We need to recognize negative thinking and negative language.  We need to recognize when our minds are being manipulated by propaganda.  Each of us needs to examine the information that comes at us each moment to see if it is trying to create a negative future or a positive future for everyone, for the Earth.  In our own homes, we need to demand respectful positive language, as opposed to the language of racism, sarcasm, and death.  We need to open our minds to the view points of others, to hear them, even when we can't agree with them.  We need to eliminate mud-slinging from our politicians broadcasts.


In the days that follow the blaming of this or that politician for the shooting of a politician, a judge, men, women, and children in Tucson, Arizona, I hope we all take that extra time to consider our words and actions.  I hope that we hold those we love closer.  I hope that we all see the needs of others and try to help them in whatever little way we can.  I hope that a butterfly flaps his wings and sends out a wave of positive thinking across the world.  I hope that a new attitude infiltrates the hearts and minds of all people to make this Earth the best place it can be for the children that we pass it to.