by Centurii-chan
Ah Mercury. So Shiney and so deadly.
Ancient Chinese recipe. Guarantees you won’t age.
Imagine still being alive to witness the slow, agonizing death of the universe, when all matter and energy are evenly spread across an incomprehensible vastness, and nothing will or can ever happen again. The next billion years would be fairly interesting until the sun expands and swallows the Earth…or, at least, dries up its oceans. Hopefully, you’ve found a way out and onto another planet for another billion or so years. But after about 170 quattuorvigintillion years of cold, dark, nothingness, you’ll probably get pretty bored of it all.
Making a lot of assumptions here that our models are accurate enough to correctly predict the end of the universe - whether it’s a big crunch, big rip, heat death, some clumsy git dropping the marble so it shatters, or something else entirely. I would take eternal life+youth so I could find out.
Once I know everything, then I might get bored.
So far, I think the general consensus is heat death. Being an optimist, my hope is for the big crunch. If that one’s true, what’d be infinitely hilarious is if it always repeats in exactly the same way.
If that’s the case, then I guess all of us do truly live forever. We just microdose the same exact snippet of eternity.
So much of what exists is spheres and circles. Who’s to say time doesn’t also run in a circle?
I don’t think very many people, if any, want to be unable to die forever. Most people just want more time.
If you ever have kids and probably just as you age it only gets worse. I’m like, this little kid is 5 already? And it hits hard.
My best friend just had a kid. I imagine I’m gonna wake up tomorrow and he’s gonna be graduating high school. When did time start passing so fucking fast?
That point in time was when the number of new things in life diminished to sporadic events. New things stand out and feel longer, repetition and same ol blurs and becomes irrelevant to memory and thusly disappears making time seem to “fly by”
If you do a ton of new things you’ve never experienced there’s still the possibility of having an “endless summer” such as the ones people often fondly recall from their youth.
The problem often is that when young, basically everything is new, getting a bike and being able go visit a gas station is a new thing, but as an adult, visiting a gas station, even if a new one, has enough same ol to become irrelevant’d by the brain.
I was more excited about life at 8 than at after 20, so for me it’s def reversed.
Tho I do need to know if an elixir causes immortality, I do not want to drink it by accident.
