Sometimes your life turns a corner. Maybe it’s because something really lucky happened, or really unlucky. Or maybe it’s because you had the seeds of a great idea that will one day bear wondrous fruit.
Usually we don’t know about these things in the moment. The cascading process of cause and effect is generally a long chain with many links.
All we know is that sometime in the future, we will probably have the hindsight and clarity to identify those days when our life turned a corner. And we will marvel that we had no idea, in the moment, that something so big was afoot.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get just a hint — just one little hint — that we were living through an extraordinary day? If you could click on an option that said “yes, tell me whenever this is one of those days,” would you do it>>
I for one would welcome that tap on the shoulder from the gods. Your mileage may vary.
Would you want that tap on the shoulder without an indication of whether the thing was going to be positive or negative? This reminds me of that Chinese parable about the farmer and me the horse: https://medium.com/@dineshsairam/the-chinese-farmer-and-his-horse-what-is-the-meaning-of-life-9fba73f689eb