The Button

I watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button yesterday. A third was for Brad, a third for Cate and the rest was like what the title promotes, curiosity. I wanted to know what was so curious about Mr Button. True enough, the whole concept of reverse aging was fantasmically curious. Going through the normal developmental stages was difficult enough for most of us, with growing pains and aging pains. So how would a person endure the process in reverse? At first the thought rather fascinated me. I thought it would be nice to grow younger instead of older. But then, I felt that this would be fine if everyone else was going through the same process. It would be very difficult if you were the only one growing younger each day, while the rest of the people around you were aging and eventually dying. In the end, like Mr Button, your child might end up becoming your parent! This is really sad. You would have to reconsider many things, make more difficult choices. Some people find it hard to have a child for the reason that they might be too old to care for the child when he or she grows up. What then if you are afraid to have a child because you might become too young to care for him when he grows up?

There is a reason why clockwise is clockwise. Temporal equilibrium is a doctrine in its own right.