Gabriel Abed’s Blog

I recently applied for a website contract online via craigslist.com. I got a reply from Warren Chau, and in it, he said this:

We dont aim to change the world, we aim to ride it while we are young.

I just stopped reading the email and thought about this one sentence. Although my thoughts had nothing to do with the website contract, I agreed and disagreed with the phrase. My life objective is to noticeably change our world; even my existence has already changed the world. The person who is reading my blog took time out of their life when they could have been doing something else. If it weren’t for me, then who knows what else they could have been doing… Running to the opposite side of the road and could have possibly got hit by a car? Of course that scenario is far fetched, but it goes to show you how my (and your) existence changes the world, completely. Its a dominino effect that is chain linked to every single person. A never ending bond that our every action affects someone, and in turn, that person’s action (based on ours), affects someone else… Is your head hurting yet?

I am changing the world without people knowing, however, my objective is to make changes in the world, good changes, that people will notice. Young or old, I want to make history and I want to be remembered as the guy that did something great.

More Babel:
Those of you that are stupid, and yes, I am being so bold as to call you stupid, are probably sitting there and criticizing the above literature. I am going to be more complex with my theory, as to travel back to the time when your parents first met.
My parents met on a beach in Barbados, what if on that very day, my mother decided she didn’t want to go to the beach? Would my parents still have met? Probably, but not under the same circumstances. Thus, I would not exist and you wouldn’t be reading my blog. Some are going to argue that destiny would have brought them together, but the fact remains that the entire world and the course their lives took would be completely different. What I am trying to get at is extremely complex and hard to explain. Our every action affects the course of the world, it may not be immediate world-wide change, but eventually, your single action would affect the world.

Lets start a little cycle of actions:
I decide to clap my hand. Something so small you think wouldn’t affect the world? Wrong. My clap may have been heard by a neighbor and he/she may have had a mental thought of what the sound translated to (a clap). The neighbor, lets call him Bob, would have been distracted from whatever he was doing, maybe reading a magazine. That split second Bob took to comprehend my clap may have made him lose track of what he was reading, and thus translated into 2-4 seconds of lost time. Eventually, his normal course of action would be thrown off. He may quit reading early than he expected because the 2-4 seconds he spent searching made him lose interest (maybe not all) in what he was reading. This is now going to cause Bob to do something earlier than he originally was going to do it. Maybe drive to work? Bob now gets in his car and drives to work, but because Bob is such a slow driver, he is now affecting Mike who just happens to end up behind Bob. Mike has now been affected by Bob, the slow driver, and thus Mike’s original daily cycle has been affected. I can go on forever with this, but I don’t have the time and I hope you guys followed along.

My basic argument is, don’t let anyone tell you that you cannot change the world. You are changing it with every breathe and every beat of your heart (and I mean that, seriously). We make the world what it is, and our actions are what makes the world turn…

Update:
My friend Jeffrey Munro read my blog and messaged me over MSN. He sent me a Wikipedia link to discussed the “Chaos Theory”. Basically everything I said falls under a simple form of the Chaos Theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

I am actually more into this than when I originally started to blog about it. My mind keeps ticking and I keep thinking about the smallest of events changing the world, so what we would think are ‘random’ events are actually instances brought on by another’s actions. What if I ran outside, in the open, on a sunny day… I would stop the sun’s radiation from directly hitting a piece of concrete, and who knows, this could trigger a series of events!

Here is an example that Jeff gave to me: “The flap of a butterflies wings can cause a tsunami half way around the world”. Guess what? I believe it. I can’t explain how, but I know that through a series of millions, or even billions of events, it is very possible.

Jeff brought up a valid point, while we conversed over MSN:

Your theory is a great one, although it falls apart if you believe in any form of manifestation or perceived reality. Because then everything that happens in a person’s reality is their creation as opposed to the result of an interaction with another mind. Which is what I believe, and if you believe that everything affects everyone it gives little control to you (the creator) but instead states that your destiny is controlled by the decisions of everyone else in the world.

I believe that Jeff is a little confused, because he thinks that we control our world, which in a sense we do, but when given a decision, brought upon by another’s action, we make a choice. We are not the center of the universe (maybe in our own minds), we are part of it and we, not I or you, dictate it. That is what life is all about. So, my dear friend Jeff, your theory falls apart, while mine stands strong. Thanks for coming out though.