Just because

When young,
life feels at the expense
of almost everything.

Habits, whims.
Lifetime decisions
taken as inconsequential.

I took the class
just because I wanted
to walk home with her every day.

We practiced sports
just because we would rather
not be home.

With such ease,
we mangle destiny,
worried by trivial thoughts.

Later in life,
all those micro decisions
will lose their thread.

Until we remember,
the power
we attributed to chance.