Reality Or Make Believe?

It is clearly evident that Tralfamadorians are different in many ways compared to human beings. The many ways goes beyond just the physical features, but more into mentality. Human beings have a self care attitude and the body will do everything to survive when it all comes down to it. This concept of "eat or be eaten" can easily describe the nature of humans. While this does not always have the literal meaning, it describes different situations such as in war. In war, it is all about killing the enemy and surviving yourself --- eat (kill the enemy and survive) or be eaten (get killed). However, the Tralfamadorians are the complete opposite and could be described with the three C's --- cool, calm and collected. An example of the collectedness that this species has would be in Chapter Five, "That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones" (Vonnegut, 117).

The behaviour and mentality of the Tralfamadorians raises a few questions:

1. Could this mentality that the Tralfamadorians possess be a reality someday or is it a figment of Vonnegut's imagination and something that he wished for the world? 
2. If humans try hard enough, could the awful times be ignored? Is it really that easy? 
3. Is this concept of ignoring the bad times and focusing on the good ones, something human beings would want to do? If so, how would it all come together --- where is the starting point to achieving this? 
4. Can ignoring the bad times and focusing on the good times become a reality? 
5. Are the Tralfamadorians foolish in thinking this, too optimistic or something else entirely?

Having different perspectives is completely okay. In the book, The Crossing by Michael Connelly, the main character, Harry Bosch, has a very different mentality on a case than his colleague, Mickey Haller. Haller asks Bosch, a retired detective, to investigate a case that surrounds his current client because Haller believes that his client is being framed and is actually innocent. Bosch finds this skeptical and as his private investigation continues, he feels like Haller's client could be at fault. The detective's and lawyer's perspective on the case is on complete ends of the spectrum. The two individuals can represent the Tralfamadorians and human beings because they don't understand one another. The Tralfamadorians don't understand the concept of time that humans have, "They couldn't imagine what time looked like to him, (Vonnegut, 114), while humans cannot understand the way reproduction works for Tralfamadorians, "It was gibberish to Billy" (Vonnegut, 114). This is just like how Bosch doesn't see why Haller thinks his client is innocent.