I was recently driving from the summer place back to the winter one. Along the way I had made numerous split second decisions such as taking an alternate scenic route, not stopping for the usual coffee, passing a slower vehicle, even slamming on the brakes to stop and take a sudden photo op then changing my mind. All these things altered my trip perhaps by minutes but obviously by seconds. Ninety miles into the trip, a gopher decides to dart onto the road and connect with my back tire at precisely the right moment. It left me wondering how many variables had to happen, including braking for a pothole seconds before the incident, that all led up to that fateful moment. Somehow random and extremely unlikely coincidence didn't seem the option at the time. So many things had to come together with all the decisions and speeding up and slowing down. I'm sure the gopher up to that point of the morning had also made decisions that altered that moment by minutes if not only seconds. Even an extra turn of the head earlier could have altered it's fate. The intricacies of life are complicated yet work seamlessly as a whole. It's nothing we could ever accomplish on our own.
©... timothyu
©... timothyu