Ch Ch Ch Changes..

I've bought several books by Chuck Klosterman. I really like what he writes, and how his essays are a clear thought that also makes the reader think. Rather than just being entertained, I want to ponder and think about what I just read, especially if it is a new concept to my way of thinking, or perceiving something. The first thing that I read in his Eating the Dinosaur that really struck me was about time travel. It's not so much in the whole idea of time travel, as I don't ever see a possibility of it happening, or that of my ability to participate in it, it's the why of traveling through time that has always struck me as odd, without my being able to answer that for my own self, Chuck has been able to; "People who want to travel through time are both (a) unhappy and (b) unwilling to compromise anything about who they are. They would rather change every element of society except themselves." I had to wholeheartedly agree with him. I also wonder if these would be time travelers could in fact change things to make it better for them in the present sense. As Marty McFly did for him in Back to the Future. I wouldn't want to change time, to go back and examine the minute details of when there was a chance to make a difference, as the timing would have to be precise. Regardless of being able to warn myself to not do something, or to encourage myself to do something, I had to go through those things to be the person I am today. And I like the today me. The second thing he wrote that got my attention was about football, not insomuch as the game, but the whole process of coming from 19th Century football, to what we have now. "how thinking slightly differently can have exponential consequences, particularly when applied to an activity that's assumed to be inflexible" This can be brought to so many aspects in life. I at times view how things are unable to change, but when I look at it in a different way, and think about the possibilities, change does come about. I guess it really comes down to what David Bowie was talking about with Changes. "Just gonna have to be a different man, time may change me, but I can't trace time"