Remember that time you ate that spicy sandwich just before you went to bed on the night before the big graduation? Oh, that weird dream you had about the 2016 presidential election. When you woke up you couldn't quite remember the horrendous details, but after reading "On Self-Reliance" and "A Sound of Thunder" it's all coming back to you now.
The dream started badly. You were in line with your family at Target waiting to be sent to a steep cliff. Everywhere you looked there were posters of president-elect Sin Melox, looking like a crazy cat] who could eat a whole possum.
Suddenly, there was Ralph Waldo Emerson telling you, "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself" You realized that you have something to contribute to the world so you decided to dance. But it wasn't easy. First you had to put on a fancy dress and foot long heels and then you had make a package to go back in time to the museum so you could convince people to learn about the candidates and the immigration issues.
But right there in the museum there was a giant rabbit and it started roaring at everyone. People started to cry. You grabbed a broom from a nearby janitor and yelled we can change things that need to be changed. Everyone stopped and listened, so you kept going.
Every decision in our lives always changes our future. Even the smallest change or decision can affect our lives and how they will look like, such as what shoe to wear or doing our homework. Basically, everything we're doing right now at this moment, is affect our lives and maybe even the people surround us. If you look at our 'small' decisions all together, it doesn't look like a big emo act on our lives, more like a routine. An example will be when in 'A Sound Of Thunder', eckels doesn't expect a big change in his future from just stepping off the path and killing the butterfly. We can also be the change in which society wants/needs. We can change our future for the better, as Emerson explains in his essay, "My life is for itself and not for a spectacle", we can't keep wanting what others want but what ourselves want. We don't need to depend on others for the decision, we ourselves can be the change that we need.
