And The Butterfly Effect.
Do you mean the movie, or what the movie represents?
I never really feared it, but I never regret anything that happened before 1996.
Your mother died in 1981...I'm glad. Hitler killed millions of jews? Good for me. If anything like that didn't happen, there is a huge chance I wouldn't have been born.
I don't care if you had the worst day of your life on April 18th, 1996. Although of course I don't approve of any of those things, or are particularly happy about them, but I'm sure most of you heard that it's impossible to kill Hitler, and if you were able to do it, time would be messed up horrendously.
Although I can also understand how you could fear it in present tense too. Maybe you ponder what alternatives could happen if you decided to go a different path down a hallway, or if you decide to grab a bite to eat before you go to Walmart instead of after.
Let's take the scenario above. You have a plan to go to Walmart, pick up some clothes, and go out to dinner on your way home. You suddenly change your mind, and decide that you're really hungry, why not eat now.
You have your meal, get in your car, and pull out of the restaurant parking lot, when BAM. You are in a fatal accident. Nothing too serious, but you did break your arm.
You spend months recovering, and the broken arm is constantly getting in the way of your every day activities. But if you would have gone to Walmart first, you would have never been in that spot where the car hit you.
Lol, I got way carried away there. Not sure if that's even what you meant, plus I put out some opinions and didn't finish them.