2009-10-10, 06:56 PM
MasPan Wrote:[color="#cc8899"]Please? That's all I ask. I don't want to be forgotten, ever. The thought that I've done nothing, nothing at all with my life, scares the hell out of me. I don't want to have left nothing if anything ever happens to me. So please, don't ever forget me, or this stupid ugly ass pink I type in here, or anything else that makes me...me.
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Ok, dude, RELAX. Everybody has identical thoughts as you, many many times in their lives. Usually, the really big one comes when you're 30, have a job, family, and kids. You start doubting yourself -- "is this what I'll do with my life, is that all?" Most people buy a Corvette or something. Midlife crisis, man.
If you think about it, your lineage goes straight back to caveman times. If you were to go back like 100,000 years in time, there were people there that you can trace your roots to. More likely than not, if you have like 3 kids eventually, in 100,000 years in the future, they'll be right there. So, your personality and mentality is basically immortal; all you have to do is raise a good family.
Birth, reproduction, and death are the three fundamental points of human existence. Birth and death are a given, but all the courtships, all the relationship BS, everything, it all boils down to settling down with a spouse and raising kids. That's true immortality, and you don't need to be Barack Obama for that.
By the way, keep in mind that the discipline of history is composed mainly of wars and changes of political regimes. Basically, most people in history achieved "immortality" by killing a WHOLE LOT of people. There are more Genghis Khans than Albert Einsteins. So think about it, if you COULD "achieve immortality" that way, would you even want to? Relax, you're doing fine.