An Observation on The Doctor

The Doctor changes things just by being The Doctor. Time, space, energy, circumstance, and most of all people all reorder themselves around him. Perhaps even the whole grasping cube of Sentient Life itself, as it crawls through the universe.  A nudge here, a poke there, and Destiny takes a fateful Splinter's swerve.

The things he does will leave echoes long after he is gone. To borrow a phrase, his existence deforms the universe.

Maybe he just realizes it a little more than the rest of us.