The Mandelbrot Man And His Incredible Causality

It's Sunday, thought we could all use a little motivation for the week ahead. I put this up because it made me think- and what it made me think was I have way too much time on my hands. But apart from that, it also made me think that really, in the long run, there is a pattern. We may not always see it, but it's there. This is how complexity theory developed- things that at first seemed random were, upon closer inspection, part of a pattern. This pattern, called a fractal, was created with a non-linear equation. As you can see, it produces a pattern. It's simply created by coloring points within and without a given parameter different colors. The pattern emerges with thousands and thousands of iterations, creating thousands and thousands of points. However, we're not at the thousands of points level, to use this as an analogy. Think of every day of our lives as a single point. From that level, it could seem that there is just randomness- we don't see the pattern because we can't get a grasp of that larger perspective. However, for this reason the pattern does not cease to exist. It all fits into the larger pattern. This isn't really so much a question of good or evil, benevolence or antagonism, but rather simply the way things are. Where you come out depends in part on past actions, and in part on the pattern. Though things may seem tough, I guess I need to keep in mind that it all serves a greater pattern, and that nothing happens for a reason, and everything happens for a reason.