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The following is a piece of writing submitted by varsha on February 11, 2017

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I had this random line of thought while on my way to the office today morning. Is it sensible to have regrets about your past? I remember watching this movie ‘Netru Indru Naalai’ a few months back. The plot revolves around the protagonist who stumbles upon a time machine and the chaos that ensues once he decides to use it to alter the series of events in his life that had resulted in his currently average or sub-optimal lifestyle, while having in mind the glamorous alternative life that would result out of this endeavour of his. The theme of the movie successfully captures the shockingly naïve and simplistic outlook to life that most of us maintain. I feel that we err in undermining the dimensionality of life and in according a highly one-dimensional characteristic to the action-consequence pair. We look at each of our lives as a series of events, one leading to another, where A1 leads to B1, B1 to C1 and C1 to D1, while chastising ourselves for not acting differently in scenario C1 which might have resulted in D2, and hence a better life. What we fail to account for in our facile analysis is that we mistake an intricate, multi-dimensional web involving equally, if not more, complex participants for a single-dimensional path while underestimating the interdependency of its participants. Sure, your life would have played out differently had you chosen to not act in the way you had in scenario C1, but by averring that it would have resulted in scenario D2 and that it would have put you in a happier, ‘better’ position in life, you ignore butterfly effects, the complexity of the human nature and a multitude of other factors which weave the web together.

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