Chapter 29: The Butterfly Effect and Other Insignificant Things
Adriana
In the chaos theory, there’s this term that my tutor, Pavlina, would always refer to. She called it the butterfly effect, the sensitive dependency on initial conditions in which a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. Phew! What a mindful. I’m pretty sure even brainiacs struggle with that one.
The confusion whirling inside my chest, the way Nikolai has rejected me over the past few years, and then seeing him again after being away on a trip with a man I’ve had s*x with to win a bet makes me think of my old tutor’s proverb.
“One day, when you become a grown woman, you’ll realize how unpredictable our lives, as women, will always be. Then you w
