So It Goes.

“So it goes.” This line is repeatedly said throughout the novel Slaughter House Five. I recently read this novel by Kurt Vonnegut and it dawned on me that one of the motifs of this novel is something to think about. “So it goes” would be said after someone or something died. This quote related to the protagonists’ experience with the aliens called the Trafalimordians. The protagonist, Billy, claimed that he had been abducted by this Trafalimordians and that they were able to teach him an important lesson. Billy says that theses aliens lived life the way they wanted and did not mourn the dead. They believed that a person died at that moment, but they would still be alive in a different moment in their lives. This followed their belief that time was circular and that a person’s life just continued in a cycle. Once you die you would still be alive at a previous moment. That would explain why the dead were never mourned. This idea that time is circular is strange to think about. If we are never really die but are actually alive all the time at a different time in our lives. And that while we are living in this moment another version of us is living another scene of our lives. If this were true that would mean our whole lives were already planned out and everything we did with our decisions were really not our decisions. Instead they are the choices that a previous version of us made and later versions would continuously take. If time is truly circular like in the novel that means that the idea of free will is completely false. We have no say in our lives and nothing we do really matters. I hope that the novel’s theme of circular time and no free will is not true. It is horrible to live our lives thinking that everything we do is worthless. To think that we have no way to change our future if we start on a bad path. Vonnegut’s theme that free will is an illusion brings readers to question the true value of everyday decisions. Hopefully this theory circular time and that everything in our lives is planned out is false, because I want to be able to control my future and to know that the decisions I make actually mean something.

and my google poem thing..

Where are my Shoes

How I tie my shoes

Teach a child to tie their shoes in 5 minutes

Teaching your child to read in 100 easy lessons

Living to 100 life expectancy calculator

Martha stewart living