Going the speed of light
Finding aliens
Developing a cure for cancer
Making Pokemon real
These things are so exciting that we can not help but to feel anxious about them because they will change humanities as a whole. However will it change anything for us?
After thinking about the future accomplishments of our earth, it dawned on me that I might not be alive to witness many of them.
I mean sure I'm going to be around for the new Iphone and a new Britney album, but am I going to be around for when they cure most diseases or when they start building a new home for us off of Earth?
It saddens me.
It's times like these that I start thinking about death, in a non-emo way, and wonder what it truly is that I fear about it. There is of course what comes after death and whether heaven and hell exist or not, the worry that I might come back as a donkey in my next life, or even just the notion that everything turns black.
When thought about, there are hundreds if not thousands of reasons our world tells us to fear death. Religion tells us to because of consequences while Ryan Seacrest would probably say to fear the fact that we can not plaster ourselves on every television in the world after death. Unless you are famous, but that is besides the point.
After my deep-thought moment, I have come to discover what it is I will fear the most. It is not darkness and it is not hell, but it is the fact that I will not be around to witness the people I love change and the fact that the world will continue to grow and become stronger without me being a part of it. It makes me feel like I've been put an this immense roller coaster ride and there for sure will be a time when I have to get off, yet the ride will continue shooting forward without me.
Deep I know.
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