Some People Are From Minneapolis

I often wonder how different my life would be now were I born just thirty seconds earlier or later some 35 years ago.

I've had a theory that usually reinforces itself when I hit a light on yellow, miss the first thirty seconds of a movie, or the phone rings just as I'm ready to walk out the office.

If our personal experiences are traceable to specific events based on location and timing, and if our personalities are derivative of those experiences, and if those experiences can be tracked on a time continuum over several decades, then I believe our experiences, our personalities, and even life occurrences would in some way be altered.

As a devotee of the collective consciousness, I wonder how, from the mundane to the epic, history would be different.