Hey ya'll
We're all part of a journey that begins with life and ends with Death.
Sometimes the pace seems dreary and slow, and hardly anything seems to happen, and we wish for it to be faster, and we wish for it to be more exciting. And today is one of those days.
I would get started on my work for the card Death and Victor's idea of a necrophiliac...but I'm out of inspiration. But maybe....
Anyway, I couldn't help but wonder, if this whole sense of dreariness and slowness was not created simply because humans weren't meant to live so long?
Once upon a time, the average lifespan of a human being was thirty years, fourty if you were lucky, and people did things at a whim and on the dot. There was no slowness and no dreariness and things just got done because, well very simply there was no time for slowness and dreariness.
The lifetime was short, but everything was done in that time, and when people died, they died in their prime, young, and beautiful still.
Our lives have been lengthened, and for the better part I believe most of us here will live to be at least twenty years above fourty - very possibly even longer than that. But with all this time, what do we do?
We wait, and we stick with what we do, and there are longer respites and things can seem to drag on and on and on, until - though our lives be longer now - ten years to us can seem so much longer in essence than ten years to a person back when men died in their prime.
And at the end of the day, we die anyway, and sometimes we are not as fullfilled as we thought we might have been.
And so I cannot help but question, does the extra twenty years, or thirty that we have added on to our lives really worth the difference? Or is life, it's length and it's worth merely a matter of perspective?
A Galapagos turtle can live for hundreds and hundreds of years. So long, in fact that some of the Turtles that live on the Galapagos Island today were the very same that Darwin had seen when he first visited all the way back in 1835.
And yet, their lives are no different than ours. Because time, you see and it's perception to a turtle is so much slower than it is for a human being. The world, quite literally speeds by the turtles senses so that even to the creature it appears as though it is standing still in time, in it's own dimension.
And so it lives long, because it's perception of it's lifespan is slowed down to the point where a day could really be a week and a month could be a year.
But what about people? Perhaps the real reason for this sense of dreariness and lack in purpose is simply that, although we have found a way to increase our lifespan, we have not yet found a way to adapt to it and so we constantly find things do to fill in all of that 'extra time' when what we should really be doing is what we have been all along...simply spread out.
However, this is all speculation and I suspect some of us are just glad to live. Live our sixty, or seventy, or eighty years of life and then die, and the longer we live, the better, as long as our bodies can still carry us. And maybe that's another reason why the Turtle has coped with it's longevity...by just living.
Perhaps the slow ride is not entirely bad after all?
PEACE OUT
