Writer's Block: Who wants to live forever?

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No, I don't. I'd be up for extending my youth and health, or extending my youth and health in addition to another 50 or 100 years of life, but I do not want to live forever. There are a lot of things to see, people to meet, and interesting changes to see unfold in the world, but I think I will be satisfied with seeing but 100 years' worth. The people who are centenarians now have seen some amazing things come about in their lifetimes-- electricity, telephones, cars, air travel, radios, televisions, vast changes in civil and human rights-- and stand on the cusp of a great many more to come, but you get the impression meeting most of them that much of it has ceased to be exciting long ago. Technology and culture may change, but ultimately there is nothing new under the sun: love, death, war, peace, the endless cycles of seasons and lifetimes.

And I believe humans even come to grow tired of their own minds. The human mind is only meant to be conscious in this state for so long; it becomes not only bored but exhausted. No matter how much a child wants to stay up and play, he eventually grows tired and succumbs to sweet sleep. Whether one wakes up a new soul of renewed energy, journeys to an alternate world, or merely drifts off to permanent, peaceful sleep, he cannot stay in his present state forever.

And because I didn't do it earlier:

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( I'm positive the temperature of the earth is rising, and I'm positive that it is affecting weather and climate worldwide . . .  )

Writer's Block: Who wants to live forever?

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No, I don't. I'd be up for extending my youth and health, or extending my youth and health in addition to another 50 or 100 years of life, but I do not want to live forever. There are a lot of things to see, people to meet, and interesting changes to see unfold in the world, but I think I will be satisfied with seeing but 100 years' worth. The people who are centenarians now have seen some amazing things come about in their lifetimes-- electricity, telephones, cars, air travel, radios, televisions, vast changes in civil and human rights-- and stand on the cusp of a great many more to come, but you get the impression meeting most of them that much of it has ceased to be exciting long ago. Technology and culture may change, but ultimately there is nothing new under the sun: love, death, war, peace, the endless cycles of seasons and lifetimes.

And I believe humans even come to grow tired of their own minds. The human mind is only meant to be conscious in this state for so long; it becomes not only bored but exhausted. No matter how much a child wants to stay up and play, he eventually grows tired and succumbs to sweet sleep. Whether one wakes up a new soul of renewed energy, journeys to an alternate world, or merely drifts off to permanent, peaceful sleep, he cannot stay in his present state forever.

And because I didn't do it earlier:

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( I'm positive the temperature of the earth is rising, and I'm positive that it is affecting weather and climate worldwide . . .  )