Life and all its changes..

Aug 01, 2005 09:01


"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deer’s would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket.  Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't be that, exactly. You'd just be different, that's all.  You'd have an overcoat this time. Or the kid that was your partner in line the last time had got scarlet fever and you'd have a new partner. Or you'd have a substitute taking the class, instead of Miss Aigletinger. Or you'd heard your mother and father having a terrible fight in the bathroom. Or you'd just passed by one if those puddles in the street with gasoline in them. I mean you'd be different in some way-I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it ." -- H.C. in Catcher in the Rye

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. - Kurt Vonnegut

Life, time, death..it's just one never-ending cycle.
I'm curious..what's your stance on life?
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