George Gurdjieff describes the root of one’s mentality with his timeless reflection, “Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what comes from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory” (George Gurdjieff). Gurdjieff is showing how events and experiences that someone has been through affect their view on the world, which is a major theme that occurs in Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War. In The Forever War, through the dilation in time and