It's interesting to regress back through all the major decisions in your life, seeing just how much tiny little things can have major consequences.
For example: Take something simple like "I work at a college":
- Why? - Because I applied there after finishing my university degree
- What degree? - Computing
- Why computing? - Because I did a year of another course, failed and decided to switch and stay at the same university
- Why did I go to the university in the first place? - Because they had an interesting course which I wanted to do
- How did I find out about the course? - My friend went to that university and I was talking to him on MSN one day and decided to check out their courses
- Why was I talking to him on MSN? - Because I only had a part time job at the weekend and not muc hto do during the weeks
- Why? - Because I took a year out after finishing school and couldn't get a job really
- Why? - Because I got bad A levels and was terrible at interviews
- Why? - Because I skipped most of my final year at school due to depression
- Why? - Because of my appearance and the side effects of taking some medication for acne
- Why did I take the medication? - Because I'd had spots for years and they wouldn't go away
- Why did I have the spots? - Diet? Genetics? Lifestyle?
If even one of those stages had been different, e.g. if I'd not decided to check out my friend's university, I would have gone somewhere else, done something different, met different people...had a totally different life probably (possibly).
Or If id' not had the spots and therefore the depression and skipped classes, I would have got better results, got into my first choice of Clincal Psychology and again...ended up completely different.
I find that quite interesting to think about.