Sliding doors

Speaking of commuting and switching n waiting for trains and busses, suddenly 2 movies just popped into my mind.

Both are noteworthy.

1. "Trains and busses". Or something like that I cannot remember the name or who acted in it but its not a recent one, and its a good movie. Its about this guy who has to rush back to his family a few thousand km across the US and how he tries to take a flight, then train, then bus, then taxi, then rent a car, then hitchhike etc etc and how he meets this other loner guy blah blah and its a good movie. One of those warm warm nice spirit touch your soul types.

2. "Sliding doors", with Gwyneth Paltrow. About this Gwyneth who was rushing to work, and as she runs down the stairs into the subway train, theres a guy sitting there blocking her path. Then she avoids him, and in so doing, adds a precious 2 seconds to her time, thus causing her to JUST miss the train. Its cool. They show then an alternative view..what if she HAD caught the train...and the chain of events that follows. Had she caught it, she'd have gone to work, worked hard, come home, found her man, and lay happily in his arms. But she didnt catch the train, went home, caught him with another woman, tada! I liked the fact they showed both scenarios, and played it out.

Kinda reminds you of life does it not? Everything, every single thing that we do, has an effect on everything else from this point on. Everything we are today is a the result of decisions made yesterday. How 1 single thing can erupt the whole chain. It makes you wonder, is this predestined, or just totally ad hoc? I mean, 1 of my ancestors could have, while in China, been looking over the Great Wall thinking how nice and then slips and falls over n dies and there'd be no me (hence denying the world of a brilliant thinker like moi). If my grandma had not existed, my entire clan wouldnt be around, my uncles and aunts (those who married my clan) would have married other people. Does that mean there is more than 1 person for everyone then? Or would they then not have gotten married? Would the bachelorettes today be happily married women if say some guy 10,000 years ago did not die due to a stray arrow and thus his descendant today is that handsome guy who this is married to the current bachelorette? Little did some ancient king know that by 1 simple declaration of war, he created an immense social problem 200 years down the road.

Isnt it cool? Humans, history, evolution, social problems, all somehow connected by an existing by invisible, subtle thread?

OK, what the heck happened to my work hard til 7 mantra...better get started on it already and stop dreaming..*shakes head*..immature indisciplined boy.