Viewing life as a story line (an insight into CAD's Choose-Your-Own-Adventure side story)

I am an avid reader of the Ctrl-Alt-Del comic, and for the past few comics Tim Buckley has been providing his readers with a Choose-Your-Own Adventure side story with Ethan and Zeke (two main characters) exploring space and what-not. Readers could vote on what Ethan would do in the next comic, which of course could cause "fame and fortune" or death.

The adventure ended on Monday and Tim posted the entire story tree showing all the different paths our decisions as readers would have taken us. As I read the story tree I found myself in awe as I realised the impact the small decisions Ethan (or us) made a huge difference to what happened to him and the universe. This spawned an insight into my own life: the small decisions I make everyday have the same sort of impact on my life, and on the people in my life, AND on the people NOT in my life.

Now I'm not going to start analysing the way I walk to work to see if it results in my, or someone else's death or anything like that. But I feel like I have become one step closer to being in-touch with the universe, fascinated by how it all fits together.

If you'd like to read the Choose-Your-Own Adventure story yourself, start here. The story tree can be found on Ctrl-Alt-Del's website.