A Stream of Consciousness

Our class's recent coverage of cause and effect versus a flow of constant, concurrent events suggested an interesting branching concept. If every observable event were to possibly just exist alongside another completely irrelevant event, one that we would correlate as a cause or effect of the other, then perhaps every action, emotion, and idea of perception is constantly being occupied by someone or something in a particular nook or cranny of the world. The intense amounts of joy, despair, or anticipation that mark a pivotal point in our individual could belong to a single, global capacity of these respective emotions that we strive to attain or avoid throughout the "present" that our life occupies. In our desperate struggle to elongate, shorten, or just generally control the flow of time, we cannot help but be affected by these forces of the world and attempt to create a system of organization to counter them. Even so, it is only through our personal experience that we may one day accept this fate of expiration and take our best shot to maximize the time remaining in which this perception rings true.