What If The Biggest Decisions Of Your Life You Didn’t Even Know You Made?

When one small choice can change the course of your life

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Beep, beep, beep.

My alarm blares at me incessantly. I turn over in the still pitch-black room and reach my hand out for my phone.

5:30am

The time I need to be up to get to work. The time that is much too early for my still exhausted body. I yawn, roll over in bed and open up my phone. Mindlessly I check my apps, scrolling without really thinking. My brain is only half awake.

Twenty minutes later, I am still in bed.

I swear, close my phone, and rush around the house trying to get ready as fast as possible. When I am finally sitting in my car, ready to leave, I am 30 minutes behind schedule.

I turn on the radio, and instead of the music I am expecting, I hear a traffic report. Multi-car pileup on the highway. I listen for the location — it is about 30 minutes ahead of me, right on the route I take each morning.

I guess I am going to be even more late, I think. Then it hits me.

If I had followed my normal routine, I would be 30 minutes farther up the road. I may have seen the crash.