The Nova Effect - The Tragedy of Good Luck

A short fictional story about a series of events that cause the sudden appearance of intense change in a man's life.

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Music:
4:12 - An original song provided by the artist 'ache'

Additional songs provided by Epidemic Sounds:
Enemy Territory by Jean Leonti
Made of Shadows by Lalo Brickman
Homeward by Trevor Kowalski
House of Horror by Marc Torch
Kingdom Of Baghk by Vusal Zeinalov

[mr_niceman]

This goes from “is this bad or good luck?” straight to “do I exist? What is existent?”

[mehdadjafari]

"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so"
-Shakespeare

[thebkstank]

Nova, a dog at the pound, sees a man with a budding glioma and realizes the chain of events he must initiate to save this man's life.

[youtubersingingmoments]

It's the butterfly effect (chaos theory) mixed with an "everything happens for a reason" mentality (optimistic nihilism). Great video.

[johnpapiewski]

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck saved you from."
- Cormac McCarthy

[lamgiang]

Eric: So doc is it bad news or good news?
Doctor: Yes

[bonkers]

Something like this actually happened to my Grandfather. Got in a motorcycle accident, went to the hospital, and while he came out relatively unharmed from the accident through scans they found out he had cancer.. it was treated early though and luckily is still alive and doing fine :)

[iPlayOnSpica]

There's also an ancient Chinese parable that is pretty much this story. A man's horse one day runs away, and days later he returns with a mare who then also provides labor at his farm. Another day, the man's son falls off a horse and suffers a leg injury, but later a military draft passes, and his leg injury got him exempt while the other draftees in his village eventually all got killed in battle. There was way more to the story, but I've forgotten most of it.

[nos]

Eric: *Goes out to have fresh air after surgery*
Nova: *starts chasing rabbit*
Eric:Ah shit here we go again

[Hostefar]

Eric: Walks his dog

Rabbit: I’m boutta save this mans whole life

[TheSubpremeState]

"Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so" Shakespeare was wise

[andysammy]

A longer version of Alan Watts' quote (disappointingly without any citation):

“The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad — because you never know what will be the consequence of the misfortune; or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune."

[ermwhatdaheck]

"We never really know whether an event is fortune or misfortune, we only know our ever-changing reactions to ever-changing events."
-Alan Watts

[hannahpeters]

way to send me spiraling into an existential crisis at 2am

[colorado-boycreations]

Well played sir. A retelling of an old Chinese proverb with a farmer, his son and a stallion, but nicely told in modern terms

[michaelweston]

Profoundly powerful message. We really have no control over circumstance or the universe.

[andrewkear]

At the end if the Story when he went to go take Nova for a walk, I was like:

"Ah shit, here we go again..."

[dreamshopesforwardlala]

The conclusion - most of us are thinking if we have glioma.

[ytduspp]

Your ingenuity in making such pleasant videos is incredibly inexplicable, the eloquence and clarity with which you speak is astounding, even in the briefest of your storytelling I get the widest of knowledge and joy . How wondrous you are ! . Wish you joviality and peace !

[awaitingconfirmation]

This was surprisingly wholesome.
Knowing this channel and how these types of videos usually go, I was expecting a really sad ending but everything turned out fine.
I'm really glad.