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Immortality is a Bust
Most people don’t know what to do with the 70 years they already have.
So. You say you want to live forever? What are you gonna do with that? Are you going to go on to create world saving devices? Learn how to Create stunning works of art? Become a world grade athlete and expand the boundaries of human ability physically?
Or are you just going to keep on doing “more of the same.”
“Immortality — A Fate Worse than Death’” — author unknown
Or is it you’re just “Afraid to Die?”
Most people don’t know what to do with the 70 years they already have. They play and run around working on making their life meanigful… when it isn’t.
Recreation has at it’s core the act of re-creating/re-create. But if your ‘recreation’ is merely another form of wasisting time because you don’t kow what you really want to do with your life, then what is that?
I hear many men for whom sports is everything. Knowing all their favorites teams stats. Endlesslessly (seemingly) able to rattle off these stats and argue for team superiority. Everyone wants to be a B-ball Star. Or a Beisibal Star. Or a Pigskin Star.
But is this really having Knowledge? Or is it merely another way of filling time?