Change the Present, Change the Future

Haven’t you always wished you could go back in time and fix a mistake you committed or just simply revive it for the sake of it, well I have. Somehow Billy is lucky to have this talent, even thought he might not enjoy it so much. Again Billy starts travelling back in time and finally Vonnegut describes us how Billy met and got captured by the Tralfamadorians. The one thing that also keeps me sometimes up at night is why things are what they are, or almost always, what if I had chosen this instead of that. This is what Billy asked the Tralfamadorians when they kidnapped him. “There is no why”. (Page 77.) This is why humans, because of curiosity.  It’s instinct, from the very start of our lives we are searching for answers, we just want to know it all and find explanations. Instead the Tralfamadorians simply say that things are what they are.

I would like to compare this with George Orwell’s “1984”. The protagonist, Winston Smith, lives in a totalitarian world where everything is because it is, just as the Tralfamadorians say. Winston becomes curious about stories he heard of events that happened that his government changed because of the higher power’s liking. This leads Winston to revolt and rebel against his government in order to free the people of brainwash and communism.

What if the Tralfamadorians are right, existence is just because its there and there is not explanation? After all, we still haven’t found the meaning of life.