Forever And Ever

What does one do about the dead? They live forever. ~ Dora Russell

If you could live forever, you would have all the time in the world. Time would mean nothing to you. Death or growing old would not be a problem. However, if you lived forever, you wouldn't care as much about life, because you would be a billionaire in life. Time would mean nothing to you. You could keep on living life, because you would never get old or die.

Living for ever and ever, it sounds pretty good, but why does it sound good? Most people think that living forever would necessarily be good. However, even with our lives now, we don't fully utilize our lives even though we live longer.

So would living necessarily longer be such a good thing? Probably not, would be the answer. The reason so is, something is only valuable when it is rare or not common place. If we all live forever, people would take things for granted. Just think about it, already when people are young they live how they live, and when they get older, and see that death is nearer, sometimes, life becomes more precious. Furthermore, when you only have one dollar, that dollar is very important to you, compared to someone as rich as Bill Gates who could swim in it.

It's not really that the whole idea of living forever is bad and all, it's just that people don't seem to already appreciate what they have. Additionally, when we come face to face with our own immortality, we start thinking more, and sometime more about others.

Often at times we are not grateful for what we have, we are always hoping to reach something. We are so engrossed in getting somewhere, that we forget to live now, and be happy. Being happy takes a conscious effort. With living for eternity, looking at the pattern of our lives, it would seem safe to assume that we would not change our lives, and that's why being alive forever, wouldn't be that great. It would just mean that we were more unhappy for longer. The thing is, if we cannot be happy or do something with the now, we cannot expect to do so for the whole stretch of time.

Death, lack, and inflatable cats are not nice. However, sometimes, when you only have so much you realize how much you have. Moreover, having more years in life would be a good thing, but living every moment of your life fully would be better than living forever and not appreciating moment. At the end of the day, we do not choose what cards we have been dealt with, but we certainly choose how we play them.