Even today, I don’t know what made me shout after him: "Hey! Wait a moment." [...] Well, the fact is, it was some kind of impulse; an effect of that energy that drives our lives and shapes them in one way or another. For if those words hadn’t escaped my mouth (will had no part in this), my existence [...] would have taken a path that today I can’t even imagine a little bit (J. Conrad, The Shadow-Line, 1999, 42).