random roll of dice
is potent force as any …
shift in the weather
In his book Then Everything Changed,” Jeff Greenfield writes:
“History doesn’t turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel,” and that history “is as much a product of chance as of the broader forces at play.”
“Geography, topography, ethnicity, ideology, climate, natural resources, the search for wealth, mass migrations, all set the framework; but the random roll of the dice is as potent a force as any,” he writes. “A missed meeting, a shift in the weather, a slightly different choice of words open up a literally limitless series of possibilities.“
Forget history.
Take everyday life.
Switch.
Click.
And it’s a different day, week, year, life.
No warnings.
No gaurantees.
No google maps.
And its all wrong in an instant.
Don’t tell me about intentions.
As that bit of verse about the car wreck that goes:
He was wrong
and I was right
but I was just as dead
if he’d been right …
Sometimes its rocky and sometimes you don’t notice I guess.
I am reminded of CS Lewis and the Screwtape Letters where Mr. Lewis writes:
“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
Most times you just don’t see it coming.
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