Experiences // The importance of one moment

I was so excited to be back in my Miami studio on Friday evening.  The classes there are the most intense practices I have ever had.  Knowing how little I've been practicing I knew it would be a challenge for me - and it was.  I couldn't believe that I was getting light headed and had to actually go into child's pose quite a bit.  What made me get over my ego was thinking to myself how embarrassing it would be to pass out and that would be the number one most embarrassing story.  One little thing, one little unexpected thing, could have changed a story I told or my practice that day.  As I began to practice a little less intense, I began to think about experiences and moments again.  

I have been spending a lot of time lately thinking about how little things, or things that seem incredibly insignificant can change your entire life.  They can change you and the course you take in your life.  Going out one night (even if you really want to or maybe you were trying to back out but decided to go anyways) seems just like any other night.  But what if you meet someone?  What if someone you know becomes something more?  What if you get into an argument with a friend that changes your friendship forever?  There are so many times I can reflect back and think a night was just going to be an ordinary night - but then there was NOTHING ordinary after about that night.

Small decisions, going left and not right, boarding a plane, getting in your car - every thing you do down to the very second you do it will change what comes next.  So the question is what is it?  Fate?  Destiny? Preordained?  Complete self will?