Impact.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about impact. My friend Tony is getting married this Saturday. Now, four years ago, Tony was offered my current job while I was in London with TimBaird. Tony turned it down and instead worked for a company in Pennsylvania. This opened up the spot for me and had a huge impact on my life.

What would have changed?

Well, for one, I probably wouldn’t be in CT. The day that I accepted this job an opportunity opened up at GE in Lynn, MA. I wouldn’t have started any work for my MS and probably wouldn’t be doing the MBA. I would still be climbing because that started pre-CT. But I definitely wouldn’t be taking Kung Fu.

I might have a house, though houses up there are considerably more expensive than down here.

Things would be so different.

I find it fun to think about how much of our lives are decided by the decisions of others.

7 thoughts on “Impact.

  • 10/4/2007 at 3:27 pm
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    I imagine that yes I would. Though I’m not sure with what intensity.

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  • 10/5/2007 at 9:15 am
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    I think about this a lot. The story starts with two high school slackers, smart but neither bother to do their homework and get mediocre grades. Neither get accepted to their first choice colleges and both end up at WPI. It is happily ever after for us after that though.

    For the longest time I felt guilty for not trying harder in High School, now it’s become something that I’m gratefull for b/c otherwise I would not have ended up with Tom. Although had we both got accepted to our first choice schools we both would have ended up at the same school (Carnegie Mellon).

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  • 10/5/2007 at 9:38 am
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    Aww, You guys are awesome!!

    Likewise, had you worked harder I never would have been introduced to the joys of cooking anything exciting. There’s a good chance my diet would have been stagnant: tomato soup with a side of couscous for the rest of my life.

    I still can’t believe you make your own tortillas. And the pickled carrots? amazing.

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  • 10/5/2007 at 9:54 am
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    Tom has been doing awesome things with pickles this summer. Latest pickles green beans and turnips, both are excellent.

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  • 10/24/2007 at 3:28 pm
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    Seeing as how I’m directly involved, I would like to throw in my two cents (and really, that’s all it’s worth). I too have been giving a lot of thought to this type of thing as of late (probably pre-wedding jitters), and here’s what I’ve come up with. A: Life is waaaayyy to complicated to figure out the what ifs. There are so many times when I can specifically pick a point of time and say, if I had done this instead of that, I would literally not be where I am right now. So many choices, so many options, and only one would have led me to where I sit right now (ironically, at work and bored). What if I had not blown the interview for the Naval Academy, what if I had decided to take my sophmore year off, what if I had just gone full time military. Life is full of those decisions, which leads me to B: Ok, I don’t know what B is, I had a B, but it’s gone. SO I’m just going to end by saying, that there is no past, there is no future, there is only the present, and with a little help and the right ideas, the decisions made now will put us in the right place at the right time for the rest of our lives. But if not, you will never know the difference, so what is the right time and the right place?

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  • 10/24/2007 at 3:28 pm
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    Seeing as how I’m directly involved, I would like to throw in my two cents (and really, that’s all it’s worth). I too have been giving a lot of thought to this type of thing as of late (probably was pre-wedding jitters), and here’s what I’ve come up with. A: Life is waaaayyy to complicated to figure out the what ifs. There are so many times when I can specifically pick a point of time and say, if I had done this instead of that, I would literally not be where I am right now. So many choices, so many options, and only one would have led me to where I sit right now (ironically, at work and bored). What if I had not blown the interview for the Naval Academy, what if I had decided to take my sophmore year off, what if I had just gone full time military. Life is full of those decisions, which leads me to B: Ok, I don’t know what B is, I had a B, but it’s gone. SO I’m just going to end by saying, that there is no past, there is no future, there is only the present, and with a little help and the right ideas, the decisions made now will put us in the right place at the right time for the rest of our lives. But if not, you will never know the difference, so what is the right time and the right place?

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