Compare And Contrast Einstein's Dream

What would you do if you could freeze your favorite event in time forever? Would it be a blessing or a curse? In “Einstein’s Dream,” his entry for 14 May 1905 gives you a visual about some very interesting contrasting views. The entry talks about how, “There’s a place where time stands still,” things are motionless in time. It talks about how the closer you get to the center the more things slow down and the further away you go from the center the faster things seem to speed up. Parents with children and young lovers would probably want to be in the center and slow time down. The entry talks about how we have to decide whether it’s better to stay near the center of time and be content with life, or do we go outside where, “Life is a vessel of sadness,” to live life nobly. Both areas have many pros and cons, but deciding which one is the best may be more difficult then what you would think. Everyone has a time that they would probably love to just stop in time and cherish. In this story, they reference a girl, who is young and innocent, and the parents that don’t want to let go of that innocence. The parents have seen what the world has to offer and they know that this one particular moment needs to be cherished forever. They …show more content…
They try to protect us from the entire negative and the bad in the world, but as we get older and further away from where our time stood still, then I think time speeds up. We start to experience the things we want, some positive and some negative, and we stop listening to our parents. We are trying to find that point where time may slow down or where we can make sense of time. I don’t think we will get things to slow down until we have a child and at that moment we will want to make time stand still. The story makes a reference about butterflies and yes butterflies can be very beautiful, but no one wants to see one fixed, frozen, and mounted in a