Just wondering about how my life could have touched someone else’s and I realized this. Maybe you’re just joking around online and mention something that triggers an idea in someone else that leads to revolutionary new things that impact humans everywhere. Even if you’re forgotten, or uncredited, you had a meaningful contribution.
Like when Doc Brown was standing on his toilet hanging and clock and fell, hitting his head on the sink. That’s when he came up with the idea for the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible.
Movies that are “inspired” by real events.
“Well I saw this story of a dog who saved his owner from a well, which inspired me to come up with Independence Day.”