THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT TRIPSA ALEXANDRU / 6F

The butterfly effect

by Tripsa Alexandru 6F

It is true to fact that this beautiful world we live in holds no boundaries in order to fascinate us. A curious effect of this “world”, as we call it, is the Butterfly Effect, or the Domino Reaction. This Butterfly Effect is rather a component of life, than a random reaction. If the world wouldn’t react in connections, everything would just be perfect, but that doesn’t make sense. Utopia is called ‘Utopia’ for a reason. Picture a tiny butterfly, flying around in a field. The butterfly roams around and flies towards the opposite direction of the rest of the flower-covered field. It flies, maybe for hours, until it reaches a small, country-side school. The school is situated in a rather poor village, most of the children’s families cannot afford quality medication, therefore, when the curious butterfly entered the class through the small crack in the window, a child sneezed in the air, infecting a small chunk of the air for a matter of seconds, right when the insect flew through it. The butterfly now had bacteria on its fragile wings. It flies out of the school, being overwhelmed by the number of creatures in the building. It flies directly into the nearby flower plantation. It found a big tulip to sit in and tumble around, ultimately infecting the inside of the flower. A swarm of bees started to extract the pollen out of the flowers infecting one another, and then infecting the flower field. The humans that worked there also got sick, infecting the rest of the village, and then cities, through transport, then countries, then the entire world. Soon enough an advanced alien civilization caught interest in the evolved sickness, but after discovering the deadliness of it, they decided to destroy the Earth, and then the whole galaxy, leading to the end of all life. Phew. What about that! Oh.. excuse me. Yes? What? “Butterfly Effect” is used in figurative contexts? Pffff, that’s stupid. No one would think of that. ...Man I get waay too underpaid for this kind of stuff.