A butterfly effect is the phenomeon that a small change in initial conditions that leads to a significantly different result than if the initial conditions haven’t been changed. Have you personally witnessed such phenomeon?
Example: Your pet seeks attention and you decided to spend a few seconds to pet your pet before leaving for work/a party/shopping for grocerries/etc. You drive to an intersection and the light turns red just a few seconds before you arrive, the car ahead of you passed the intersection sucessfully. When you eventually arrive at the next intersection, you find the car ahead of you was hit on the side by another car from the intersecting road. The driver in the car ahead of you was instantly killed.
You’ve just been saved by your pet.
Back in high school times, my mother made me go to a religious summer camp. I got more religious after that and it came time for me to get a job (I got a job while still in high school at a fast food place). I said I couldn’t work Sundays because of church. The first place said then you can’t work here. I said okay and went to a different fast food place and got a job with Sundays off.
Fast forward to my senior year, I wasn’t really religious anymore and I started training some new girl. We hung out and started dating. Ended up getting married. We went through some troubles where we were living and moved closer to her family.
After we moved, I decided to join the military to help support us. Instead of just being all about drugs. Got some job/career experience out of it and now I’m out of the military but the job skills translated over to my current job.
The thing is I don’t think I ever would have joined to military if I didn’t feel I needed to for my wife. I never would I have met her without working at that fast food place. I never would have worked there unless they gave my Sundays off. I never would have cared to ask for Sundays off, if my mom didn’t force me to go to a religious summer camp. Yeah so probably that.