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Keywords: thought
At school today, the most peculiar thing happened to me. I was in physics class, and I was pondering whether to turn in my work at that time or at the end of class. I decided to go ahead and turn it in early. I stood up, and as I walked through the rows of desks, a girl dropped her textbook, which landed with a thud on my foot. This moment at face value may seem insignificant in a lifetime, but at that moment, several ideas struck me.

What are the chances that could happen? It's as if every decision I made throughout the entire day led me to be in that exact spot at the exact time the book was dropped. If I had pondered a moment more, or a moment less, I would've avoided the book entirely.

While this incident posed no threat to my life, imagine if it was a situation that would've. We seem to drift around and think the odds of us being next is impossible, when in fact, its about one in seven billion. Somebody has to be that guy.

Surely he thought that it wouldn't be him. I'm sure the last man to be struck by lightning would've laughed in someone's face if they told him he would be electrocuted. These rare occurrences, like dropping a book on a passerby's foot, serve as little reminders to us all just how frail out tether to this world truly is.
I find no reason to worry about it. The odds of something happening are very low, but completely unavoidable. Why worry about the things you can't help? Makes you paranoid, I'd think.
It's by the chance that it wasn't chance at all.
How do you know she didn't cause the book to fall on purpose? Then it wouldn't matter how long you pondered - the book wasn't going to be dropped until you got up.
Well I suppose I cant be 100% sure if it wasn't done on purpose, but it looked like an accident. And yes squeaky, I know what you mean. Even if I try to avoid something, me trying to avoid it may be the reason something happens to me in the first place. Its all very paradoxical.
The chances it would've happened were (exactly) 0 beforehand and 1 after the fact.
I am currently doing what I need to do in life. I'm happy, and I do my best to be a good person. I don't have any regrets, and while I have high ambitions, should those fall short because of an accident, I would have no hesitation in saying that I lived a good life, and this is my time to go.
this is a hilarous blog post
It's not whether or not it was going to happen that mattered. It was your reaction; or lack thereof.
shouldve stabbed her in the throat with a pencil, then she wouldve been pondering on the chances of that happening and getting stabbed in the neck.