The Evolution of Ourselves

On page 87, Billy Pilgrim explains how the Tralfamadorians see humans throughout their lives. "They see them as great millipedes-- 'with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other." The Tralfamadorians see us as every point in our lives in a line. We start as babies and move through our lives until we are old and die. The Tralfamadorians see the evolutions of ourselves throughout our lives that we will never see. We take school photos every year and our own photos, but Tralfamadorians see the evolution of us through every day, minute and second. What if we could see like the tralfamadorians? We would see everything a person has done in their lives. Every time they laughed, drove their car, cried, ate, walked and so on. To see the evolution of someone, you would see every part of that person. Tralfamadorians see all of us, but we can only see certain moments of each other.