Chaos Theory

I came across this term quite a bit in the past few months starting with a crazy tamil movie I saw a while ago. Then I heard this term kind of used to explain the not-so-obvious aspects of life in the Art Of Living class I mentioned in my earlier post - for eg, how a random act of kindness can cause a chain effect and how even when something bad happens to you when you actually did some good, you have to take into account a bigger picture to tally the equation out. Life is complex.

Well today, I got to experience my own dose of this medicine. Here's a small snippet of what happened. Got up today in a grumpy mood (which, according to my wife, would be saying I got up normally), my mind wandering, and when it came to leaving for office, I was so grumpy that I dint even wait to say good bye to my son as I often do, even though I was 10 min ahead of time I dint wait for him to come from his pee-pee (loo usage) to tell me a goodbye. I had just turned into the road outside my apartment complex and waiting for a green signal, an old truck in front of me, for reasons unknown, decided to backup and his rusted door saw my hood and fender bent in no time. It all happened even before I can reach to my car horn to alert him to stop. Insurance info exchanged, claim filed - seemed like an amicable person.

Now - the question is - if only I had waited for my kid to come from the loo to give me a good bye, --- I would have had my car whole, no insurance mess. Even though its the other drivers liability, still its unpleasant. My grumpy day eventually became an insurance mess for him. ( I am hoping he would also tell the same to his insurance so that its sorted amicably. But if he changes the story, then I am not sure whats going to happen. )

Now its anybody imagination to fill the details on why was I grumpy and whats next for the other driver who had a bad start for his day. Thought this sounds like chaos theory hence.

Attached is a pic of abstraction taken during fire works. Long exposure during fireworks couple with crazy movements of camera to create weird/abstract effects.