Help
Sign In
age
September 2009 
If you could live forever, would you?
Posted on Jan 26th, 2009
by 
DudeRun
DudeRun
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 26, 2009:
I would choose not to live forever. I had this conversation with my friend after we went to the Twilight movie and I just couldn't do it. I said that I couldn't bear watching all of my friends and family die while I lived on. It would hurt too much to lose the ones I loved so much. She said that she could and it wouldn't bother her to lose her friends and family, but that she'd never lost someone before.
I've all ready lost a handful of people close to me that have shaped me through everything and have helped mold me into who I've become. To lose my brothers and my sister, my dad, my aunts and uncles, my cousins, my nephews and nieces, and all of my friends would be so hard for me. If I walked on while they all died, I fear that I would become an extremely bitter person. The death of my cousin has left me extremely angry and more than a little bit lost. If everyone were to die, where would I go? What would I do?
True, I'd have more time to do the things that I wanted, but what importance would they really be without those that I planned to enjoy those times with? And after awhile the bands I enjoyed would perish as well and I would be left without anything that I'd really held onto.
Even a hundred extra years would seem too much for me. I think the perfect age for me to would be about 80 years old. I will have seen and done things and lived a moderately good life. I will have graduated from college and will hopefully use my degree. I hope to be a missionary and travel the world and raise money to help South Dakota and my hometown out. God knows we could use better schools and roads. I hope to be married and have children and I hope to live to see my grandchildren. I want to write a book and play in a band and see my favorite bands perform. By 80 all of that should be accomplished. If not, I'll just have to try to live until I'm 81. =]
I've all ready lost a handful of people close to me that have shaped me through everything and have helped mold me into who I've become. To lose my brothers and my sister, my dad, my aunts and uncles, my cousins, my nephews and nieces, and all of my friends would be so hard for me. If I walked on while they all died, I fear that I would become an extremely bitter person. The death of my cousin has left me extremely angry and more than a little bit lost. If everyone were to die, where would I go? What would I do?
True, I'd have more time to do the things that I wanted, but what importance would they really be without those that I planned to enjoy those times with? And after awhile the bands I enjoyed would perish as well and I would be left without anything that I'd really held onto.
Even a hundred extra years would seem too much for me. I think the perfect age for me to would be about 80 years old. I will have seen and done things and lived a moderately good life. I will have graduated from college and will hopefully use my degree. I hope to be a missionary and travel the world and raise money to help South Dakota and my hometown out. God knows we could use better schools and roads. I hope to be married and have children and I hope to live to see my grandchildren. I want to write a book and play in a band and see my favorite bands perform. By 80 all of that should be accomplished. If not, I'll just have to try to live until I'm 81. =]
Access: Public
