090209 l three bugs in amber

Why me?"

"That is a very Earthling qustion to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?"

"Yes" Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it.

"Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."

(...)

"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warning or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5