Shawn Gaston - "The Butterfly Effect"

I love movies that really make you think and this is most definitely one of them. The butterfly effect is about a college student named Evan and when he would read from his adolescent journals he was actually able to travel back in time and redo parts of his past. He would almost always go back to painful memories and try to make them better. As he continues to do this, he realizes that even though his intentions are good, the actions he takes always have unintended consequences. Like he tried to save his dog’s life and some how that made everything else in his life go wrong like his girlfriend hated him and his friend tried to kill him. Then he would go back and try and fix something else and that would fix the initial problem but cause even more negative consequences. He got so frustrated because he could never catch up with himself something he changed would be a cause and effect for the next. After watching this movie I was able to relate it to every day life. We don’t always know why things happen in our lives but they have some sort of reason and rippling effect on what is going to happen down the road. God is the only one who knows why things happen the way they do. Next time something bad happens like you get a flat tire or run out of gas just think maybe if that hadn’t happened you could have been in a huge car accident and killed a mother and her child. Or something as simple as a baseball player striking out at the plate, that action might just cause the pitcher to throw a fastball and the next batter to hit a winning homerun. You don’t know the reasoning but like Evan learned in this movie everything that happens, happens for a reason whether you know it or not. So I believe we must trust in God’s decisions and take everything that comes to us and make the best of us instead of always wondering what if I had done this differently.