Sorry to read of Irene's issues..
The way that I write this may also depend upon my present state of mind...
If I wrote it another day... It may vary..
I think many people would like to live either longer or again (BUT maybe many (if not all) of us , to do so in varying circumstances ) to what we are in now.
Life could / can be really good as we are all aware in our positive periods.. and we may wonder depending upon our circumstances.. did our lifes need to be as they are.... or could we have improved them or avoided some of the bad things that may have occurred to us..
MAYBE PROVIDED we do not have to much or many Unfortunate external negative things occur in our lifes... we would hope to live worthwhile life's..
but some negative things will always occur, some more negative than others...
there is ALWAYS going to be FATE that will happen at sometime that will effect us at some time.. that will have negaitive effects on us.. and when that happens... our lives can start to become less happier...
But if we were able to avoid the really bad things... then we question things like :
Could certain education or better upbringing have helped us avoid certain negative things that we may have experienced for eg.... Id say for the majority of us (again if not all) I would certainly say so...
or If there were ways to correct certain things that have effected us for the worse.. be it physically or mentally.. then again if we could alter things for the better... that may be seen like living a new life again to some extent..
I would liked to have been able to experience some of the high life... where you take away the Money concerns.. or having to work for a living..or trying to search ways to make money..or avoid certain stresses in Life..
No doubt if we had enough money... I am sure as long as we appreciate what it could do for us...
our lifes would then become much more worthwhile.. or enjoyed more.. and we could have more choice and freedom in life.
Not that Money is all essential to be content..
I think finding a path that we want to take or doing things that we want to do.. make a huge difference.. and if we can earn a living doing what we like ... all the better..
But for many... it seems they end up being guided into things that generally later on they dont find content....
and they become depressed or their health suffers... then life quality goes down hill...
The other problems being... most of us are just brought up into the system and go along with it...we know little if any difference.. or believe in what our our parents or teachers tell us.
and if the system is corrupt or those in power make our life opportunities more difficult... such as Govts creating mass unemployment etc ... then the people suffer..
SO that has been often a huge part of lifes problems...
IF we did not have to deal with that... life would / could be so much better for many..
or if there are other ways that we can live with all the excess stress that often seems to be a main part of life..
The other thing is being or having the right guidence and doing it within a reasonable time frame..
some of us get that help... and some do not..
and IMO its much much harder for those who dont !
BUT it is also down to us individually to be able to try to do the right things...
as we can have all the the good advice available.. but if we ignore it or do the wrong things...
chances are we will get negitive results..
But I do think many of us can change for the better if we are able to act on the right advice..
other issues are...there will always be the limitations that each of us has that we also have to contend with... that may be things that we can not overcome..
For me, IF I could get my life on the right track... with the right guidence.. and income... I would like the chance to plan it for the better...
and would appreciate having more time to persue it...
There is so many things that as I get older I still do not really know.. and things that Id like to either learn more about or redo some... and I could live another several lifetimes and not achieve them...
So yes Maybe Id like to live to be 1000 years or so .... at least at the times when they were within reason...and bearable...Its unlikely (or Not possible ) we could ever go thru that long a life and avoid bad things occurring
But how we may consider things if we were bad for us....we may or probably could think different.
If a person lives to 50 or 100.... Living to a 1000 yrs if only 10 to 20 more equivavlent life times to maybe live thru some other alternative life Journeys..
As we age... we realise 50 yrs seems almost nothing !
but like many I do get days when I get depressed at times and question why Bother ! and whats the point !
If we get negative things occur.. life starts to suck !
There are so many other levels of Life.. that most of us will never get to experience in our present existence.. but we may in the next life's at some time, if we do come back again and again.
I think as I get older and hopefully wiser.. I realise or seem to accept that certain things are just not in my make up to be able to have ever been able to achieve due to my lack of abilities etc.. which also sucks when we are unable to do certain things we may wish we could do..
I think trying to find a way out of poverty or the standard type of life that a majority of us have to endure.. maybe one of the only ways to be able to have the chance to live a good life..
but finding / obtaining it is a difficult challenge for most...
and what seems annoying is that there seems those who have what it takes and those that may not...
and thats when Life seems so unfair ! and one wonders why !
Then the other question for me... is thru out life... we change... and what we may have wanted when we were younger.. often does not appeal to us when we are older...
and what am I or you trying to actually achieve if anything !
or are many of us just here to observe at this stage...
In my case.... if I could choose my ideal life journey... what do I want to aim for ?
As I ask that question, I am not really sure...
I thinj one severe thing that I may have liked to consider.... would be to be able to find a way to be able to explore the Universe... whethers its trying to find a craft like Source that would enable me to travel anywhere vertually...
including thru time...
That maybe one ultimate dream... BUT how I would I deal with it if I had such techology or ways to do such things..
At my present stage... be it mental or physical.... I would not be confident that I could deal with that much, like we may see or imagine in the Movies ... as reality is far different... and fear is for me or could be somewhat extreme in certain situations ..
I dont want to be a super hero fighting all the bad things...Much of that Id want to avoid...
and I suppose the ideal is to aim to do the stuff one want s to experience ...in a positive form..
or id have be immortal and to be able to avoid pain or death if I was to become a super type hero !
but Id have to include the better positive sides of life much more in my journey what ever that maybe..
My dreaming is my only answer !
Otherwise Im not sure what I really want to aim for..
or maybe its just to aim to make life for the better..or to achieve something that helps better mankind.
Zorgon:
Well it seems the ELITE do... they are either afraid of death or know they will have to face the Devil they sold their soul too
Look at David Rockefeller 6 heart transplants Didn't help....
And all those Pedophile stories It's not about sex... its about a form of vampirism as they hope to get strength back from the young blood.
No one in their right mind wants to live forever. I can't wait to croak. There isn't a day that goes by that I'm not in some kind of GD pain or some part of my system is in mutiny.
Give me the dirt nap, or, in my case, I'll be ashes in an urn in a Nokotsudo. Sis will be in her urn right next to me.
All I want is some GD peace.