life backwards
when i think about life and how beautiful it was back when we were kids, and how increasingly depressing it appears to get, i find myself wishing life moved backwards - i.e. we started at old age and grew smaller all the time. and it's not only me, i've heard many others voice the same desire (however unreal and absolutely impractical it may sound). thinking about that some more today, i was trying to decide if it were really such a perfect solution to all of life's problems. surprisingly (for i *was* surprised) it really isn't. right now, i find myself dreading the thought of losing people that i love. ironically, that would happen all of the time - if time went backwards - we would keep losing the people we loved. nor would we have our growing wisdom to feel secure about, for we'd keep losing that bit by bit. argh!
maybe it would be easier to learn languages as we grew younger, but when would we practise them? in the 3 years we had left to live? and i could learn the piano, but to what avail?
in fact, we would start with everything (a finite amount, an upper bound we could never exceed) and steadily proceed towards nothing. my god! could a thought be more depressing?
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This of course begs for the following from George Costanza:
“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, and you get ready for High School. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last 9 months floating… then you finish off as an orgasm! Amen.”
actually this was in the back of my head when i was writing this post. i have indeed seen it.
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