Monday, March 2, 2009
Unstuck in Time or Stuck in Life
In this chapter, I came to realize the state of desperation Billy Pilgrim must be in due to that he is in fact unstuck in time. He is forced to travel through the moments of his life all over again, unable to change anything, a helpless spectator who can do no more than watch from the sidelines as he makes the same mistakes all over again. I have come to realize that the truth is life would not be life if we had the chance of fixing our past mistakes. Learning from them is what really makes it worth living. It is hard to put into words, but what I am trying to say is that the power of controlling time would only bring us more insecurities and more confusions, for there will always be countless solutions to the moments we found ourselves caught in and couldn’t escape from. When there is nothing to do about these mistakes but learning from them to act on them in the future, we find a way of letting go and moving on.
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act on them = This phrase is awkward. Try re-phrasing it.