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Originally posted by KRL
I get freaked thinking about how little incidental things can reshape your life.
For example:
If I had not stoped and picked up a Time Magazine issue back in 1984 at the newstand on Van Nuys Blvd. at 2 AM I would not have seen a small article talking about a new telecom service called 976 numbers and I would have not gotten into pay-per-call when I did.
Then I would not have ended up getting inot the 900 biz.
If I not gotten into the 900 biz then I would not have done a business deal with the owner of Chippendales to do their Romance Fantasy Line.
Then I would not have met a girl I dated who was working there who ended up working at Saks Fifth Ave.
If I hadn't met that girl who next worked at Saks I wouldn't have met my ex-wife who was working at Saks too who I went out with after I broke up with the girl who had been working at Chippendales.
If I hadn't met my ex-wife my son wouldn't be here right now.
So it becomes absolutely mind boggling to think I would not have had the son I have if it weren't for that one simple decision to stop at a newstand in Van Nuys at 2 in the morning one night 20 years ago.
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I've thought about the same kinds of chain reactions and wondered where I would be without them.
But even more mind boggling than that is to picture that if you hadn't stopped at that newsstand, your life would be different and you would probably be looking back at a completely different random thing, thinking how weird it would be if that had never started a chain reaction.
The possibilities are endless, and no matter how you end up, you would always be able to look back and get freaked out. It would just be about having missed completely different things.