Ya, well ask anyone over 50 what he wants and it wouldn't be the ability to see thru a girl's knickers.
Old people watch their friends die as well, how does dying yourself make it any less painful? Friendships never last throughout life anyway; the average 20 yr old has dozens of good friends, but by the time we're 50, there are only a couple left; and then everyone dies alone. 30 years from now, and you won't even now where those mates of yours are. When you're young, everything seems possible and life stretches out before you without limit - believe me bro, that's not how things work. The present is an illusion, it's just a snapshot of reality glimpsed out the window as you speed down the highway of life towards the abyss.
I'm beginning to age. I notice the difference in my body, in my energy levels, in my attitudes. A friend of mine who's 10 years older than me says that whenever he looks in the mirror, he feels shame. That will happen to me, and it will happen to you. Time is a poison slowly dripping into your veins; we're all born with a three pack a day habit and sooner or later the cancer of age will kill you - there are no exceptions. Aging may be natural, in the sense that it happens to everyone, but it's still a disease, and you're infected bro.
On an intellectual level, you no doubt understand what I'm saying, but you won't really know what this means until the rot becomes too obvious to ignore. Experience is what we get from life when there is no longer sufficient time remaining to make good use of it. As Oscar Wilde said, "youth is wasted on the young". What's the difference between our ages anyway, 30 years? - that's 30 revolutions of the earth around the sun; blink a couple of times babe and there you are.
Life is good, so if I could have a super power, it would be to remain 25 for ever, all the while growing, learning and improving. We should all be like vampires in the sense that the longer we live, the stronger and more vital we become.
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