Ripples

I have always believed that everyone creates ripples. And that we touch other's lives with everything that we do. The precise time I crossed a street or bought some food creates an effect on other people's lives. Joan just reiterated it today.

Oh! I haven't told you about Joan? Well, she's Joan of Arcadia. One really nice show that really makes me ponder about my life more.

Today's episode (actually, it was Friday night's episode on ETC) was about touching other's lives and looking at the whole spectrum. Joan was tasked by GOD to ask Steve, a bully, to the school dance at a precise moment and she did. She doesn't really know why. Anyway, things went well and a small thing led to Steve running away from school, with Joan following her. Steve had a gun and started practice shooting until Joan's dad arrives. Anyhow, Joan asks GOD what good was she able to do when it will eventually landed Steve in jail. She was tasked to listen. She did. She observed. But she still didn't understand why nothing good came out if. Well, she was missing the whole spectrum. When she asked Steve to the dance, she saved lives. Because of her act, Steve got noticed. He was given an importance. Another person believed in him. If not for Joan's act, there would have been a shooting incident with a number of students getting killed and shot by Steve, who will commit suicide in the end.

Of course, if GOD wasn't there, Joan would have missed the big picture. How would she know, right?

I guess it just made me think more that everything I do, affects everyone, no matter how small. I touch other people's lives, affecting their decisions, making an impact on their future. I create ripples, though I may never know up to what extent