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Sometimes days pass by until you realize they
are passing. A thought clouds your mind with a temptation to explore the
"what if's" and so your solitude is occupied. Days becomes night,
evening and afternoon have no sign. Some of you think about getting into better
college, some are occupied with better job salary while some are busy with what
to download. Lately, I have been seized by a thought. Thought which might
transcend the boundaries of fiction. Even though the idea can never happen but
dabbling into the sea of possibilities, which indeed is perpetual, it is itself
a meditation to me.
Thought, a human is ought to die as a part of an inevitable
process; the thought itself brings a sense of sensation down the spine.
Equilibrium has to be intact, after all that is how the universe works. Give and take away criterion is a
fundamentally proven law of nature.
Whenever something has to dealt with life and death, as a part of routine we
always tend to drag medical science and its advancement into the field but
never tried to go beyond death. Medical advancement cannot seize your youth
forever. Life beyond death is my
point of ponder here or Immortality,
if I articulate the phrase.
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and
immorality — Jean Paul
“How would it be if I were immortal? Rather
filling only one generation I would have filled so many, if only I were
immortal.” It is actually what has been keeping me up these days. Immortality
is something which is always fantasized and wished by the mortals. Why we ache
for such a bizarre fantasy? Perhaps, it is not the curiosity of watching the
generations come and go by; somewhere down the line it is the fear to die, fear
of not able to breathe again, feel the things again and departure from the
loved ones. Plenty of people must had given a thought to not to die secretly in
their solitude. Getting baffled by the enigma of life and death is rather very
easy and intriguing also on the other hand very intimidating too. If you still
haven’t given a thought, please do since I do not want to sound like a parallel
universe’s weird specimen. Thought? Felt good; didn't you? Watching over your parents,
children, grand children, great grandchildren and so on! Witnessing the growth;
from mobile phones to holographic communication devices and eventually to the
end of the world. Historic life. Wouldn’t it be, hmm?
Hindu mythology manifests the fetish for immortality.
Protagonist, *of the time being* prays hard to impress his God and when succeeds;
in exchange of his efforts, a blessing for immortality is being asked, often.
Though, God replies with a straight no, no matter how rude may it sounds, but
why? Perhaps, being immortal is not what it appears to be. Significance might
to manifest itself but is encrypt somewhere in it. Mythological aspect of being
immortal implies the sheer fact, that now the “mortal who has turned to
immortal” shares a place amidst the various Gods. Either God is too choosey
with his council members or there is no vacancy for other God job post. But
nothing seems to convince me. Is then immortality a curse? I had stopped
pondering upon this issue; hitherto, I was suggested to watch a series.
Recently, I had completed watching a 6 episode
anime series, named Rin: Daughter of Mnemosyne which answered me the question for which I had been longing
for. The story of two immortal girls; cannot be killed, and if they do get
killed, they can regenerate. Excellent concept with sheer brilliant artwork (Of
course artwort would be brilliant, it is an anime.) and short six episode story
but with a perfectly profound moral, at least for me. With every passing
episode the series taught me aspects of human life. The trading cost for being
immortal is just too high. Stakes are off the charts, I’d say. The foundation
policy of our entire living comes into act “if you want some, you have to give
away some”. But what you have to give away in return of immortality? Seems
peculiar trade, no? Given a chance to choose I would like to die instead of living
for eternity. Why? Because the answer is simple, immortality is a curse. You
have to pay for immortality for eternity. How would someone feel if he is made
to eat his favorite food all day long? He will relish the feast for days, then
after week he will get tired within a month or so, bored. Repeating the same
activity for decades perhaps century will eventually lead to a life of boredom.
This is the expense and peril.
Detachment is hard and dealing with the
melancholy would be perpetual when you have to live on and on, seems a trivial
trade to me; only if you are not a hollow emotionless lump of flesh in a human
form. Peril comes with everything but the intensity differs with every
circumstance, this is extreme. Living has to be kept a secret affair; questions
would rise if told to everyone. Human are always curious to explore new sides
of life, making your immortal life just a piece of experiments and data
collection source would be a heavenly blessing for them. Changing places and
identities, so much for living is not the kind of life I would ever want. Yet,
there will be people who will opt to live and face the consequences. Words will
fail to persuade them but their opinions will remain unshakable. Of course
everything is fictitious but seems real to me, I think I am immortal………
