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I've been thinking alot about death recently (for no reason other than sometimes humans tend to do that from time to time), and it occurred to me that I've led such a blessed life that should I die tomorrow, I would have zero regrets.
I've done everything I wanted to, been everywhere I wanted to, enriched the lives of some, worsened the lives of others (but in a way this enriches the lives of those who would otherwise have had to deal with them) and have no goals left to set myself.
Being non-religious I don't have an irrational fear of death, I just see it as the divide between life and a non-existent state in the same way that my birth was a divide between the same non-existent state and life.
It would be nice to see England win the World Cup in my lifetime, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter, mainly because I don't believe there is a grand scheme of things.
What fascinates me most is that the spark of life - the entity, the consciousness - that is me, must have come from somewhere. Maybe it is just something produced by lots of synapses firing off in my brain, maybe I'm just an area for all my thoughts to come together to enable them to be projected out, and the brain evolved 'conscious identity' as the easiest way of doing this. Or maybe I'm a spirit, or a soul. Or maybe life is something completely different.
6 billion people on the planet and nobody has figured it out yet, I doubt anyone ever will either, and I doubt death will provide any answers. So until that event, I'm just going to carry on enjoying life (and taking the rough with the smooth, for that is part of life).
I've done everything I wanted to, been everywhere I wanted to, enriched the lives of some, worsened the lives of others (but in a way this enriches the lives of those who would otherwise have had to deal with them) and have no goals left to set myself.
Being non-religious I don't have an irrational fear of death, I just see it as the divide between life and a non-existent state in the same way that my birth was a divide between the same non-existent state and life.
It would be nice to see England win the World Cup in my lifetime, but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter, mainly because I don't believe there is a grand scheme of things.
What fascinates me most is that the spark of life - the entity, the consciousness - that is me, must have come from somewhere. Maybe it is just something produced by lots of synapses firing off in my brain, maybe I'm just an area for all my thoughts to come together to enable them to be projected out, and the brain evolved 'conscious identity' as the easiest way of doing this. Or maybe I'm a spirit, or a soul. Or maybe life is something completely different.
6 billion people on the planet and nobody has figured it out yet, I doubt anyone ever will either, and I doubt death will provide any answers. So until that event, I'm just going to carry on enjoying life (and taking the rough with the smooth, for that is part of life).
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I don't regret much in my life. I've made some stupid decisions but I feel that I've learned from them and if I hadn't felt the repercussions of them I could be some screwed up guy now.
However I would regret not doing a lot of things in the future as I plan on doing quite a bit in my life. Family, nice job & general fun I hope. And obviously I'd want some people to know exactly how I felt about them.
One of my old teachers came out with quite a clever analogy for life. "It's like leaving a good film half way through". As I always dream of the future and wonder what amazing things will happen but I'll die before I find out whether the human race makes it. So I would regret that I don't get to see future events, cool new technologies and finding out where humans go. Then again that was the same teacher who also declared "Death makes me angry, really pŁ@%s me off".
However I would regret not doing a lot of things in the future as I plan on doing quite a bit in my life. Family, nice job & general fun I hope. And obviously I'd want some people to know exactly how I felt about them.
One of my old teachers came out with quite a clever analogy for life. "It's like leaving a good film half way through". As I always dream of the future and wonder what amazing things will happen but I'll die before I find out whether the human race makes it. So I would regret that I don't get to see future events, cool new technologies and finding out where humans go. Then again that was the same teacher who also declared "Death makes me angry, really pŁ@%s me off".
Very_Metal wrote:
> i'm impressed with the amount of respect shown in this thread (i
> wasn't really sure whether to write anything or not to start with).
> for a place that seems to thrive on tormenting people, it was a nice
> change.
Me too, when i said about the girl a while back i was expecting someone to have a pop, but then someone was nice and said "the right girl will come along" or something like that and i was surprised that it was a nice comment rather than an a-hole comment which you see a lot of on these forums!
> i'm impressed with the amount of respect shown in this thread (i
> wasn't really sure whether to write anything or not to start with).
> for a place that seems to thrive on tormenting people, it was a nice
> change.
Me too, when i said about the girl a while back i was expecting someone to have a pop, but then someone was nice and said "the right girl will come along" or something like that and i was surprised that it was a nice comment rather than an a-hole comment which you see a lot of on these forums!
i asked for that really :D
Very_Metal wrote:
> i'm impressed with the amount of respect shown in this thread (i
> wasn't really sure whether to write anything or not to start with).
> for a place that seems to thrive on tormenting people, it was a nice
> change.
shut up u homo
> i'm impressed with the amount of respect shown in this thread (i
> wasn't really sure whether to write anything or not to start with).
> for a place that seems to thrive on tormenting people, it was a nice
> change.
shut up u homo
i'm impressed with the amount of respect shown in this thread (i wasn't really sure whether to write anything or not to start with).
for a place that seems to thrive on tormenting people, it was a nice change.
for a place that seems to thrive on tormenting people, it was a nice change.
I'm too young to regret not doing anything really.
So nothing I guess. For the moment.
So nothing I guess. For the moment.
monkey_man wrote:
> Is this actual regrets, or fantasy regrets?
> EDIT: Because I've always wanted a big hat.
Fantasy regrets ...
Not boarding that landed flying saucer when the bug-eyed grey thing asked me to.
I wish I hadn't thought wearing a shiny red codpiece over my pants was cool.
> Is this actual regrets, or fantasy regrets?
> EDIT: Because I've always wanted a big hat.
Fantasy regrets ...
Not boarding that landed flying saucer when the bug-eyed grey thing asked me to.
I wish I hadn't thought wearing a shiny red codpiece over my pants was cool.
Please don't remind me...
Nah, keep it...i am!
Well...depending on my results this thursday :S
Well...depending on my results this thursday :S
Light wrote:
> Quitting law.
*Ponders*
Do I or don't I?
Hmm.
> Quitting law.
*Ponders*
Do I or don't I?
Hmm.
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