Major life events can decide someone’s whole future. Many people have one significant life event that, if it hadn’t occurred, would alter the rest of their life as they know it. For some people, it is a change of location, for others, it is the start of a sport or activity. These factors can change friend groups, jobs, and education. These major changes are known as the “Butterfly Effect.”
A major part of sophomore Lilly Wharton’s life is softball. This one significant part of her life started when her dad chose to put her in the sport.
“I think my friends would be different, because I met a lot of them through softball,” Wharton said.
Without this sport, Wharton felt like she would be lazier and would procrastinate more. Through this sport, she is disciplined, focused, and has a positive group of people surrounding her.
“I think I’d be less happy, because it’s just really fun until you strike out,” Wharton said.
For junior Yaretzi Bustillos, moving from New Mexico to Kansas altered many factors of the life she knows today.
“[It would be] a whole different lifestyle, because New Mexico is very different from Kansas,”
Bustillos said.
If she had remained in New Mexico, she would have different friends, done different activities, such as hiking and shopping more often, and been closer to her dream college.
“I was really small, so I would have grown up a completely different person,” Bustillos said.
Sophomore Aliyah McDonald also feels she would have been a different person if she hadn’t discovered dance.
“If I never started dancing, I would have never done competitive dancing,” McDonald said.
McDonald spends almost all of her free time dancing and training for her studio and her high school dance team. If her mom hadn’t enrolled her in dance, she might have started cheer or gymnastics, which would have led her to a different life and a different group of friends.
“I think I would be less happy, because I would be doing a sport I wouldn’t enjoy,” McDonald said.
