  Isn't it amazing how the choices we make, no matter how small, could completely change the course of the world? What would have happened if the admissions chair at an Austrian arts school back in the late 20's / early 30's had decided to say yes instead of no to an application to study art bearing the name "Adolph Hitler"? How many lives could have been saved? Would someone else have risin up in his place that was worse? What would have happened had Private Barton Mitchell decided not to pick up an envelope holding three cigars that outlined the plans of General Lee before the battle of Antietem?
What would the would look like today had the South won the Civil War? What if Dr. Percy Spencer hadn't decided to put a chocolate bar in his pocket the day he was testing the magnetron? What if Charles Goodyear hadn't accidentally dropped sulpher and rubber on a stove? What if Pilate had let Jesus go instead of Barabas? What if Truman hadn't fired McAurthur and had allowed him to drop atomic bombs on China during the Korean war? What if one of our parents had said "Not now, I have a headache" on the day we were conceived? Just something to think about and to keep in mind as choices present themselves to you today. 
