mrsbruce
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funny really. I was just thinking this morning how a set of circumstances can influence what you do rest of your life and wonder if one thing changed how you would end up and what would you be doing different
Sometimes blissful ignorance is a blessing. If we paid attention to all the near misses, and changed opportunities in our lives, we’d be too scared to do anything.
There is a youtube vid of a building demolition going wrong. Young couple in the crowd, arm in arm as building is brought down. Object flies towards them, and they both instinctively turn their heads to avoid it, not a big movement, but just enough.
Only the cameraman behind them sees that this small, unregistered action prevents the child’s head sized bit of concrete from killing them both.
This stuff happens all the time, fortunately for us, we never usually recognise it.