What If?

Some days we wake up and wonder what if we would be living somewhere else, what if we had never met, etc. In my opinion this a question that we should try to avoid because we have to take full advantage of our lives because we only have one. So why waste it wandering about what might have been.

In Slaughterhouse Five we can see how desperate Barbara is with her father, Bill. After the airplane crash he was never the same person. He starts imagining things and the things he says no longer make sense. Even though Barbara doesn’t mention it, we can see her desperation in her voice when she talks to her father. She is probably wondering how her life might have been if Bill wouldn’t have been on that plane. On the other hand the author explains how Weary and Bill are travelling to their past and trying to understand exactly what happened to them. In a way I understand why they would like to go back, we wonder all the time what would have happened if we would had taking a different path in life. What is done is done, and the past is meant to keep within us. Off course we would all like to go back and correct our mistakes, but unfortunately that can’t happen so why stay wandering about the past. A friend once told me “our eyes are placed in the front because it is more important to look ahead than to look back.” We should all apply this quote to our lives because life is full of turns and surprises and it is up to us which path in life we want to take. It is up to us how much advantage we want to take out from each day.