You never really know the impact of your words, actions, moments, connections sometimes until much later if ever. Every word, action, moment leads to something- an infinite amount of possibilities , leaving ripple effects for an infinite amount of time, the butterfly effect. Small things can have huge impacts. Actions lead to behaviors that make up pieces of who we are and moments lead to minutes, hours and days that make up our life.
Positive thoughts, words, and good deeds can matter to people more than you think and have positive impact on others lasting much longer than you think. The compliment or feeling of love and appreciation can stick with someone much longer than you realize. You never know what someone is going through and a little bit of positivity could have meant a lot and made more of a difference than you believe. But the same goes with negative words, action, or deeds. These can also impact people a lot longer than you think causing feelings of inadequacy or depression, or distrust and etc. Even deeds you do unintentionally causing harm, despite your better judgement because you let emotions take you over or logic leave your system can last longer than you thought or cause more negativity than expected. No matter how much you wish you could take it back it already left its mark and impacted your life. Even something small can be a huge mistake and lead to castrostropic and devastating results like a loss of a life,job, home or even not so huge mistakes can change someone's perspective of you and lead to a loss of a friendship.
Connections, moments, compliments or acts of kindness and etc can mean more to or impact some people more than others. Some people say what they are feeling in the moment but the feeling doesn't last, while other people say it and mean it more unconditionally or less easily wavered to change their feelings about someone. Even when feelings or connections don't last, that doesn't mean that they are any less real, meaningful or impactful.
Since we don't know the way our actions and words can impact others at what extent and the ripple effects, the best thing to do is to be as intentional as possible with your actions to make sure you leave a positive impact on the people and places of this world that you touch. If everyone really considered how much their actions impact this world and the ripple effect of intentionally trying to have a positive impact, the world would be a much better place to live in.
