Immortal
Immortality has been mankind’s dream since our first ancestors rose and walked on two feet. This dream is as unreachable now as it was then. Man was born, he lived and he subsequently died. That is still the rule of the universe. But in this space age and technology beyond imagination, is it still needed?
Picture a society where people are immortal. No one grows old, no diseases, no reasons to be unhappy. Or are there? Removing the fear of death from a human’s mind will no doubt lead to dangerous consequences. Since people are immortal they will no longer strive to find the perfect soulmate to spend their days with simply because their days will never end. We cannot expect one to spend all his waking moments with another when those moments will never end. Reading this you may find it hard to grasp but in your mind you all fear death and picturing yourself with your boyfriend/girlfriend forever must be like sending your soul to heaven right away. But an immortal human being would replace that feeling with a strive for constant change. Love will disappear and be replaced with simple lust and desire to satisfy one’s own sexual needs. And where do children fit in all this? I have a better question: what children? Immortal human beings would have no need to continue their legacy. Their own will never end. Things such as friendship, brotherhod, family, love will have no meaning, for in the first place they came to be when manking realized that all people are equal in one thing – their death. Remove this equality and you are left with millions of people living for the sake of themselves only with no thought about their neighbour, brother, mother or child.
So it appears that the death we all fear contributes to the life we enjoy. Withouth death, life hold no meaning…
