Humans have always been wildly fascinated with the idea of achieving true immortality, and to see everything that the universe has to offer. Our desire to experience everything to it's fullest, even life, is something that defines us really well as a species.
We often see the same idea displayed in a variety of different art forms, whether it's movies, paintings, poems, songs, literature or pretty much anything. We have always wanted to "see it all" and know everything that there is to know.
Our hunger for knowledge about our own universe is what feeds our curiosity which makes the thought of immortality sound rather appealing because it means we get to witness, explore, dream, and learn for as long as we please.
But even if we do achieve the power of immortality someday in the far future, the question still remains, should we actually use it? On one hand, it would be really disappointing to not put one of mankind's biggest successes to use, but on the other hand, there are some major concerns that need to be addressed.
Will Life Become Meaningless?
If you look at it this way, even though the power of immortality would grant us eternal life and end our fear of death entirely, it might still rob us of everything that makes life worth living in the first place!
Think about it. The only reason you, me, or anyone else, values their life is because we know that our days are numbered and that we only have a limited amount of time in this world before we fade away into nothingness.
But if death wasn't a problem and we had infinite years to live, we wouldn't value our lives as much as we did before when we feared death. It's that fear itself that makes you want to take action and spend your time wisely.
The past is a big evidence for this. Before all the progress in modern medicine, people used to die a lot earlier which made life for them extremely precious and rare, which means death was a lot more common for them so they tried to live the best out of the very limited time that they had.
Now, however, even some of the most dangerous diseases can be fought so to prolong life. This itself, is a really good thing, but we can't help but notice how we also do waste our time a lot more often these days. We don't see death as an immediate threat but as a phenomenon that will occur somewhere in the distant future when we're old and grey.
If you stress on it a little bit, you will see how there's a clear correlation between the length of life and the fear of death. The more number of years you have in your life, the less you fear death, and thus, the less you care about life as a whole.
The same applies to the concept of immortality. If you literally had forever to live, you would just postpone everything and never really want to take actions because you always have more time to do it later. Life wouldn't seem that precious or rare to you. It would just seem as something that exists, endlessly.
But of course, all of this is just my personal opinion. There might be a lot of things that I'm not seeing yet and maybe you guys have something really interesting to say about immortality and how it might actually enrich life. Curious to know your thoughts on this.
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