Now I get it, why vampires, werewolves
and super heroes are such a rage! Why wouldn't anyone trade this
frail, mortality which includes eating (which is mostly good),
crapping (need I say more?) puking (!!!) and other horrid stuffs
(going to the dentist! Oh my god, the horror!) for an immortal
existence excluding all this mostly for vampires and aliens like
superman (or does he need to go through such stuffs as well?).
Werewolves would need to use the loo like humans, but aren't they
blessed with super speed so they could possibly rush through the
disgusting stuff!! So what is beautiful about mortality and of
course, I forgot, these creatures can avoid the most devastating part
of this earthly existence, death. One can speak of boredom, I mean a
point in favour of mortality could be that anything which is short
may not be sweet but most likely be intense and exciting, a long
drawn pause of an existence must be tedious or so we assume...so I
suppose a person living forever would come to respect life and
everything associated with it, less and less as time goes by, becoming
more nonchalant and jaded (like the protagonist from the movie “Man
from Earth”). While a mortal having a life span of seventy years
maybe would try to make the best of his/her life, or so we assume
(this is of course a general statement, some people become bored even
when they are twenty, so !) ... But then a longer life would mean more
time to enjoy life rather than to rush through it, so much more time
to see, learn, the possibilities are endless, maybe travel all around
the world, read every book, taste every wine....well the arguments
could go on and on...I wonder for someone like me (an ordinary earthling), would
I regret anything I couldn't do since I had run out of time on my death
bed or maybe I would be too tired to care?
“Round and round we go, or is it up
and down?
Oh but there's so much more, much more!
Everything passes they say,
Of course they would, they have lived
most of what I haven't lived passed today.
Yet I dislike when they sympathize,
As if that could soothe, and help me get
rid of this vice!
So up and down we go, or round about...
Till I am dizzy but there's more, so
much more!”
