Sometime I feel possessed by the idea which David Fincher planted via Benjamin. What if the clock of our life ran backward. What would have happened if we had arrived old and grew younger day by day. Would that have made a difference in the way things are in this world. Quite a mesmerizing idea. Isn't it.
The first couple of decades would be immensely enriching as we would we in the company of the old. Those who have seen it all, traveled across the world and played every role. We would be learning from their experiences. They would tell what all one should surely do in life and what all is just a mere waste of time. The initial years in the company of the wise would surely bring a sense of maturity. But in way, we would be doing away with the worst of times beforehand. Imagine having all the troubles of old age early in your life. We would age from all the suffering and grow stronger. There would not be this regret that you missed doing something in your youth.
But then it will always be an escape from the people that we will be seeing in the cross-roads of our life. It would be hard to forget the fact that we are going in the wrong direction. The fact that we would not be able to grow old with the love of our life. The fact that we would not want to have children and then get younger than them. And the most difficult of all things, you would be seeing so many of your people die in front of you. That's the hardest of all.
Everything that goes up, comes down. It doesn't matter which way you are going. You will end someday. There is no escape from mortality. But what matters is the choice you make, the people you love and that very feeling of satisfaction. Satisfaction that you did all of those things which you wanted to. That you lived to the fullest.
The first couple of decades would be immensely enriching as we would we in the company of the old. Those who have seen it all, traveled across the world and played every role. We would be learning from their experiences. They would tell what all one should surely do in life and what all is just a mere waste of time. The initial years in the company of the wise would surely bring a sense of maturity. But in way, we would be doing away with the worst of times beforehand. Imagine having all the troubles of old age early in your life. We would age from all the suffering and grow stronger. There would not be this regret that you missed doing something in your youth.
But then it will always be an escape from the people that we will be seeing in the cross-roads of our life. It would be hard to forget the fact that we are going in the wrong direction. The fact that we would not be able to grow old with the love of our life. The fact that we would not want to have children and then get younger than them. And the most difficult of all things, you would be seeing so many of your people die in front of you. That's the hardest of all.
Everything that goes up, comes down. It doesn't matter which way you are going. You will end someday. There is no escape from mortality. But what matters is the choice you make, the people you love and that very feeling of satisfaction. Satisfaction that you did all of those things which you wanted to. That you lived to the fullest.
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