My own insignificance disturbs me

Haha, no I'm not going to go on a tirade of my worthlessness. More of an analysis.....yet again.

I was at the beach, not swimming, but rather trying to be silly and digging a trench in the sand towards my sister who was trying to brainstorm a few feet into shore.

well time was running out for my trench, since we were about to leave. So I discarded the idea of trench and connected my hole to the water.

What was interesting was that the abandoned trench provided the perfect spot for me to put myself in while I dug the trench to the beach. And it amused me in how that was great evidence for that idea of "when things don't work out it isn't always for the worse". Haha.

And when I finished my "lake-capture device" (I'll try to post a pic up), I knew it would be washed away anyway.

But it got me thinking about the Butterfly Effect, and I was wondering: What exactly did my trench hole thing cause? Would it actually change waves or something? And influence something offshore?

Now that I think of it, perhaps the effect wasn't necessarily water-related. As I remember there were people around me, did I inspire a train of thought that would eventually combine to be the force behind an action?

See, I'm a writer, and I keep tabs on my environment a lot, finding inspiration and etc. So I always wonder if something I did or someone else did served as inspiration. Interesting!

And the title of this post has got me, in that yes if considering the big picture we seem insignificant, but like a picture or anything, we are PIXELS, and alone we are insignificant and unimportant, but together....together we MAKE the picture. Amazing.

And that's a fact. I influence the people and environment around me in the most beneficial way possible, and hope that the effect carries on. That's all we can do, since we ourselves can't really "see" the big picture, we just hope.

Sweet.