The ripple

It was one of those nights where I was having a smoke, and this night it was not my favourite brand, but as I followed the misty smoke making its way through the atmosphere and cutting through the power lines, making visible a sharp and distinct shadow from the cables, another "inspiration" hit me. Tonight I could follow the path of the smoke a with far greater clarity than other times and I was astonished to see how far the smoke went and was still visible. I am talking a few metres at the least maybe three or four and I could amazingly see the smoke though not as thick and rich as it first left my mouth but yet clear enough for me to follow its random path. This experience made me realise how we affect society. We may lose track of the source of this effect but we feel its resounding aftershocks. Take for instance the wheel. We do not know when it was made or by whom yet we greatly derive benefit from its conception. Conversely, we can talk about the atomic bomb and how it has affected the world. So effects, such as these can both me desirable or not so, but we must rememeber that our actions regardless of how small they seem to us do affect someone at some point or another. It could be a young impressionable child, a friend, an enemy or whoever they maybe we must try to keep in mind the consequences of our actions. Of course one cannot always do that but there must be a conscious effort to try and minimise the negative effects as much as possible. Not meaning to brag, but I try not to jaywalk, smoke, or curse around children so as to not affect their young minds since they so easily pick up from grown-ups. My two cents at this hour of the night.