Perspectives...

Time travel… Even though I know it’s a pretty impossible thing, I can’t say I haven’t though about it. Reading this book has made me wonder more and more. I can see how hard it must be for Billy to go from one place to the next. It must be really confusing, since Vonnegut puts him in two situations totally different from each other when he is travelling in time. Like his first time being unstuck in time, when he was in war, laying on a tree in the forest to going to the point where he was a little boy at the YMCA. They are two different and not related moments. Can you imagine, being in one difficult certain point in your life to going to one where you didn’t even think of tomorrow? It must be really frustrating to not know what is going on. To not know where you are really standing, and when you are suddenly going to be unstuck in time, where it is going to lead you. When does your present really lye? You are leaping from one moment to the next, that you can’t even keep track of where you were before.

I don’t think I would like to travel in time.  Being confused and frustrated, even though it would have its advantages. Like going back and changing things that you regret. But at the same time it would change your present. And if your pretty happy with your present why would you want to change that? I believe that things happen for a reason, and even though we might not understand why they happen to us, they have a strong and good reason at the end.

But again, I haven’t really understood if Billy is just an observer and no one can see him, or if he is the one actually living the moment again for the second time. And if he really is living that moment once again, and he does decide to change things, it wouldn’t make a difference because in moments he will be in another place.

This book has got me hooked, but I am confused and have a lot of questions, which is why it keeps me wanting to read more and getting answers for those questions. When does Billy reach his actual present? Is there an actual preset? I don’t know but I definitely want to find out.