Immortality — In Between Existence and Non-existence…

We are all flesh and bones with rivers of consciousness flowing in our brains. We are all just a speck in the vast universe trying to devour the unfathomable unknown inside our tiny minds. We in ourselves are Gods, Gods that are mortal on the quest of immortality.

It’s a truth that can not be escaped or ignored that everything and anything that comes to life must meet it’s death too. It is a very simple fact, you born and then you die, you exist in for a period and then suddenly you don’t. But it’s a fact a lot of us have hard time grasping our minds around. We all hold on to the hopes that someday in our lifetime something will happen and then we shall live forever however long forever maybe. And everything we do craves that forever, some kind of permanence so that we will not be forgotten in the midst of these chaotic quiet waves that washes us on different shores every time. We try to write in the sands, the story of ourselves to let someone known or unknown know that yes, I was here and I mattered.

But it is never enough, is it? We want to be here and we want to experience everything that the universe has to offer. We think of strangers before our time and feel sympathy for their lives and how they are not here to experience what we are experiencing right now and then suddenly feel the same and even more remorse and sadness for ourselves because someday in the near future we will also not be here. And that fear, fear of non-existence, just disappear from the face of the universe increases our fascination about immortality. Pardon my french but the thirst is real.

With developing technologies and ever growing inventions someday we humans may achieve immortality and that future may not be that far away. And we fear what if we don’t make it till then?

“To be, or not to be…” is the opening phrase of a soliloquy of William Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet” in which Prince Hamlet contemplates life and death, suicide. He bemoans the pains and unfairness of life but acknowledges the alternative might still be worse. This is because the alternative, death, is unknown. No one has discovered what happens after death and all this living of ours might inevitably be for nothing.

Death is a voyage into the unknown. And so we try to hold on to life for as long as possible. And perhaps immortality is the only way to avoid it. But what would life mean without death?

Why do we take a moment to soak in the sunlight when it hits our skin in the morning, why do we let the cool breeze gently caress our face like a lover and why do we stop and admire the beauty that is life all around us?

And so we hold on to our loved ones a little bit tighter, a little bit longer because we know in the back of our mind that this will not last forever and that we will not be here forever.

Immortality, we would perhaps live forever but we wouldn’t be living.