If someone was to tell me that I was an extremely serious person I'd have to agree with them. I consider myself a deep person because when I talk to people I always want to say things that are on my mind or have come into my mind because of something that has occurred during the day. I like serious things and talking about serious things and I really enjoy serious quotes. I have realized that I need to accept the fact that I'm a serious person and at the same time, try to live like a normal adult ripe with youth (AKA the amount of energy 3 cups of coffee gives and the silliness of being able make a wish in a fountain after I toss in a coin). Since no one really reads blogs—"The Julie/Julia experiment", or whatever it was called was just a happy coincidence—I figure I can travel into the deep end and be sad just like I want to; just without sounding like a weirdo to any of the people I actually have close-personal-relationships with. I'm actually a fairly cheerful person, I just like having deep thoughts sometimes.
"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
-Kurt Vonnegut
This quote obviously shows that Mr. Vonnegut is talking about the present. It makes me think that he's questioning whether anyone has a say in their future. There are so many variables for everything, a single decision made by someone can alter so many other lives. I think he's questioning whether we can change the future, or do we just have to take the hand that's been dealt. The last phrase 'mine to keep' implies that things change whether you want them to or not; the earlier phrases imply that he thinks not all of our futures are as 'wide and open' as we think they are. From the phrase 'how wide' and 'how deep' implies that not everyone has the same opportunities; I agree with that. There are very hard working people in the world who would help themselves and their families if only their country wasn't controlled by a dictator or they didn't live in poverty. We all must deal with the life we've been given, the difference is whether the narrow 'present' limits your wide 'future.'
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