Monday, June 29, 2015

June 29: Writing Prompt #180-No Longer a Mere Mortal

You’ve imbibed a special potion that makes you immortal. Now that you’ve got forever, what changes will you make in your life? How will you live life differently, knowing you’ll always be around to be accountable for your actions?
First off, I am not sure I want to be immortal.  Although it might be neat to be around for more than a century to see how the world changes, grows, etc…it would also be sad to watch everyone I love die and know that I will never have that same closure to my life.  If, however, I was immortal (by choice or not), I wouldn’t do anything differently.  I’d just live life the best I could, same as I am currently doing.

What would be different is that I wouldn’t worry about fitting everything in because I know I’d have plenty of time for that.  I might not spend as much time at work and find a way to be home more knowing that I’d have plenty of time for work and only limited time with my mortal friends and relatives.  I’d be even more spontaneous and let the housecleaning go a bit more than I already do in order to just enjoy life and not worry about those daily chores, how much I have in retirement and savings, etc…because none of that would matter so much if I had unlimited time to live this life.  I do a little of each of these things now, but not near enough since it should matter even more knowing that I don’t actually have forever, right? 

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