So it goes

The universe is a rare and weird place we don't seem to know to the fullest so, as everything in life, things come to an inevitable end. There is a phrase that says, “so it goes”, and this means that a person died. So there is no mourning or grief just a brief phrase that explains that nothing is forever and that there is nothing we can do about it. Although it is a sad and a really bad experience we must face this action and acknowledge that we can’t keep things forever, and just learn to let go for good.

 In the novel Slaughterhouse Five this phrase appears a total number of 106 times and this appears every time someone dies because of the Tralfamadorians way of life.

And we should learn something about the novel, life are just moments. We have good and bad moments but we should only remember the good ones, death is a bad moment so why should we grief instead of laugh for the moments.

“This veteran decided to take his car into the basement, and he closed the door and started down, but his wedding ring was caught in all the ornaments. So he was hoisted into the air and the floor of the car went down, dropped out from under him, and the top of the car squashed him. So it goes.”

“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past…”

“Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is “So it goes.””