The Butterfly Effect always moves me. I don't know what it is about this film that's so touching, but everytime I end up wiping the tears, troubled. It's common knowledge that we can't change our history. Our past defines us - the good and the bad, for better or worse. But the hardest feeling to let go of - is regret.
But who can fix our history? How would we look like if the watershed events of our lives didn't occur? Or were altered? Would we, as we know ourselves, be changed? Are we defined that much by our surroundings?..
Maybe. But that's not what matters. I've learnt something this summer. We're not only defined by external events and people, but we also affect our environment, and not only in the 'Green' sense. As we change, it changes us. And the human fear is not of the way in which this symbiotic process will affect us. The fear is of not being able to handle it. We don't have all the control we would like on our lives - but it is up to us to decide what we make of our lives, and that happens through the everyday decisions we make.
So that's what The Butterfly Effect embodies for me - we can try to change our lives, or we can choose to regret things. We can walk around filled with guilt or we can go out and do something about it. But whatever we choose - it's gonna be our decision. And we cannot really fix anything. We only decide how we handle things - with regret and sorrow or as a learning experiance. We can only deal with the consequences in the best way we know. And that will be the tiny butterfly that moves it's wings in China and eventually creates a hurricane in the USA - if we change the way that we look at things and stop regretting, we'll make a difference for us, and we might also affect our surroundings...
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