The Side Effects of Endorphins

Dear fellow readers, who somehow believe I know what I’m talking about. Don’t despair I don’t.  I just recently finished a book on chaos theory. I know it’s a weird choice for a book, but maybe it was my destiny. As a disclaimer I do not believe in destiny. But there’s correlation. So grab a beer put on your seatbelts because this is going to be pretty dry.

Chaos Theory

Deterministic Chaos:Chaotic systems are not entirely random; they are governed by strict, underlying rules, making the future technically determined by the present. However, small, subtle changes in initial conditions (the “butterfly effect”) make precise, long-term prediction impossible.

Is It Going To Rain on Tuesday?

I’m putting on a run at my house and I don’t really want a bunch of people with muddy shoes. The forecast calls for Rain, but is it going to rain? I don’t know.. Weather forecasters dont know.

The Best Mans Speech

Names have been changed in the story, but it’s still a somewhat true story.

The best man walks up to the podium, a few drinks in, but he feels he’s ready to give a speech for his old friend Hans. He orates,

When the couple first met, they were to meet at a Coffee Shop on the edge of town. On the way to the first date, Heidi got completely lost and turned around. She was never great with directions. Their first date never happened.

Heidi called Hans later that day and explained the situation. Hans waited in that coffee shop for 90 minutes.

Most people would’ve said she’s too flighty and moved on. But not Hans, he simply said lets try for another day. In which they did. So you can see their relationship was destiny.

The speech was nice and people tapped their forks on their their glasses for the couples to kiss. But there’s no destiny here these are simply two great people who fell in love. And they worked at it who knows what the butterfly was in the effect. Maybe it was even a butterfly who knows.

Plagerism

When I was in college, I wrote a paper on determinism versus free choice. I was very busy at the time and I took someone’s else’s idea and ran with it. I had no idea what that paper was about when I wrote it. But somehow that paper stuck with me and, many years later, I decided to read the book on chaos theory. Next on my bookshelf is a-book about calculus so there is that? There’s a lot of randomness in this world.

Conclusion

There is order in chaos. There is disorder in butterflies. A very good friend of ours just got diagnosed with brain cancer. This was not her destiny.

I don’t know what the hell it is. Some would try to fit in a religious component into this.  I cannot. That would be cruel.