Thoughts on Immortality

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Think about what it would be like to be immortal.

You’d get to see the world at its best. You’d see history in the making: innovations, ideas, revolutions, changes for the better and worse.

You could go around the world if you wanted to. Meet people with myriads of stories to tell: war veterans who’ve seen and lived through horrors. Children who grew up in hard times. Elderly women with fantastical folktales. Women with stories about friends and children. 
See places nature and time created together: gaping caves, impossibly tall forests, sprawling, glittery beaches. Look around— witness for yourself the miracle of life: how we, humans, innovative creatures who could love and remember, fight and cry, evolved from simple one-celled organisms who only knew how to survive. And how many more types of creatures evolved from those. Creatures with sharp teeth and four legs. Creatures who looked like sticks or leaves or rocks. Creatures who could shimmy through the smallest cracks. Creatures who could take to the air or dive into the deepest parts of the oceans.

You could learn so much too. In this age every resource imaginable would be at your fingertips. Want to learn about the basics of aura reading? Or work on learning how to lock-pick? Create webpages? Capture the world around you on paper? Learn how parachutes or stamps or elevators or pillows are made? Make food of all kinds? There’s something for that. With infinite time, anything is possible.

But would seeing the world, every horror and wonder, be really worth it if you had no one to share it with?

It’s ironic— you’d experience life in new ways but eventually you’d attend ceremonies acknowledging the end of it. 

Friends, families, enemies, acquaintances, strangers— no matter who, as long as you’re immortal, and as lone as they weren’t, they’d be taken away, some violently, others not so, one day.

And you’d be alone.

Even then, would you be willing to experience the same eternal loss in exchange for a momentary companionship? In other words, would you be willing to make mortal friends, even if they had to be taken away eventually?

And how would you regard mortals then? They’ve lived and experienced only a fraction of what you have. A fraction of the marvels. A fraction of the knowledge. A fraction of the losses. A fraction of life. Surely, they’re beneath you in those terms.

Yet you’re still human, like them.




But are you, really?



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So what then?
 

What is your decision?

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DeathStaravian's avatar
Weren't we talking about something like this yesterday?