Do You Want To Live Forever?

The question of mortality.

“Does it also grant you mortality?”

The question — meant as a joke — popped up in the conversation I was having with one of my friends.

It really made me think.

I paused, fingers hovered over my phone before typing my reply.

The topic of mortality has been showing up at my front door ever since my mother’s sudden passing last year.

I recently started reading Homo Deus and the author claimed that if people in the past have aimed to eradicate famine, plague, and war, then in the 21st century the new aim would be to attain immortality, happiness, and divinity.

Wanting to grasp happiness (even though it’s not something you can grasp, really), I can understand. Who doesn’t want to be happy? Divinity... It’s a matter of semantics. We are a divine being. We just need to clean our internal mirror a little.

But immortality?

My fingers quickly typed out my reply.

I live every single day doing my very best, enjoying every feeling and emotion I experience to the minute because I know one day it’s going to end.

I want to be able to look death in the eyes and say, “Yeah, I’ve done it. I’ve done everything there is to be done. I’ve been the best version of myself. It might not be someone else’s best but it’s okay. I’ve lived my life in my own terms, I’m happy about how things went as it is and it’s about time. Let’s go.”

Sure, longer life means more things to be experienced and achieved. But forever?

I think the beauty of living lies in the knowledge that we have an expiry date. Not knowing the date is what makes life so precious. You learn how to live life to the fullest.

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