Questions (Phone)

[ceasetoexist]

[At first, there's just silence over the phone, like someone knocked it over and forgot to put the receiver back up. Finally, after a few moments of this and of fake starts, Pokey finally speaks.]

So, with all the stupid age crap going on, I got a question for you people.

If you could stay one age, forever, would you? Or would you choose to keep aging?

Because, I mean, why wouldn't you want to stay the same age, right? I mean, it's pretty much immortality, and you wouldn't really miss out on anything by not getting older or anything. Really, you'd be doing better then them, right? So yeah.

Sorry, stupid question. Because it's not like anyone WOULDN'T take immortality when given the option. Because everyone would choose immortality.

Right?

Comments

[ponypuncher.livejournal.com]

Ya could ask me that a thousand times and my answer would still be the same; I'd rather keep aging. Ya imprint yerself on someone's memory and eventually yer name'll be passed around. Whether its through yer friends, family, or even stories yer gonna be buggin' people long after ya've gone and died.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but if you never aged, you'd never die, so you wouldn't need others to remember you. You could still do whatever you wanted.

[numbuh-one.livejournal.com]

It depends on the means... [cause he really wouldn't wanna do it like Leaky Leota.]

But yes, if I agreed with them, I'd probably take it.

[pause]

If all of my friends were on board with it too.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's some crummy ways to achieve it. [Like the one he took, though he's only beginning to figure that out.]

Why would that matter? If you were immortal, why would you need anyone, really? I mean it's not....it can't be that great.

[ergaleomancer.livejournal.com]

[Oh, it's the brat. ...But it's also a chance to tl;dr her opinions at someone who seems to want to listen. Why not?]

Immortality isn't meant for humans. For other beings that aren't human, I couldn't say, I am not one of them, and so that doesn't concern me.

Humans are not meant to live forever, are not meant to go on into eternity. It drives one slowly insane, and I say that from the personal experience of having met Her Majesty Queen Victoria as she approaches two hundred.

I want to live my life, short and sweet as it is, and die honestly at the appointed hour whatever it may be. My immortality will come in leaving a mark on the history books so vibrant that it will never be forgotten. I don't need to extend my life to see it come to fruition, but rather I resolve to do my best with the time I have.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

That's stupid. There's no greater power then humans anyway, and if there is? They're jerks and they can suck it. They don't deserve anything I don't.

Then she couldn't have had that much willpower, then.

You people keep talking about making a mark, but not about seeing the mark you made yourself. So it's a pointless mark.

[withmorelove.livejournal.com]

Everyone who wasn't insane or stupid. It's a living being's natural instincts to stay alive-but eternal life would eventually become inconvenient without eternal youth.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm saying. You don't age with this type. So obviously, the best choice would be to take it when the opportunity was given to you, right?

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Say you're immortal, what would you do if living became unbearable?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't.

[sting-like-a.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I dunno. Wouldn't that get kinda boring after a while...?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Why would it? You could make your own fun whenever and however you pleased, for all time.

I don't think it could ever get...boring.

[noneed-2worry.livejournal.com]

I guess I never really thought about it before.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah?

Why not? I'd think everyone thought about wanting to live forever at at least one point.

[enviousmath.livejournal.com]

I rather age. No one should live forever.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Why shouldn't they? If you have the power to do something, you might as well do it.

... Says the kid who is still canonically 10 after 13 years?

[bestwishes]

If you don't age, nothing ever changes. You never grow, you never improve yourself, you become trapped by an endless cycle, never really advancing anywhere... People are supposed to grow up, it's the natural way.

The irony is delicious

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

You can change and improve yourself without having to grow physically. You don't just remain entirely static.

[sanctusdei.livejournal.com]

My former mentor is reportedly the one of, if not the only person to create an immortailty potion in my world. But he refused to ever speak to anyone on it, not even the tiniest of detail, so I have no even a clue how he managed it.

He took it around age 30. I suppose their are worse ages to be stuck at. But if I had the chance to use one, I know I would. Staying 19 forever would be fine by me.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I don't think immortality would be that bad long as your an age you like.

Not like there's anything special about growing up or getting older anyway.

[ra-ra-razputin.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd wanna be a kid for the rest of forever, but I've never really thought about being immortal before.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Well....I mean...what'd be wrong with being around the same age you are right now forever?

Yeah, a whole lot of people apparently haven't.

[politerudeness.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. But immortality is a state which has both advantages and disadvantages.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

It has more advantages then mortality.

[fractured-white.livejournal.com]

I spent the better part of my life trying to rid myself of the curse of immortality, and I've never been fond of little ingrates that don't realize it isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Oh baw baw baw, why don't you cry more? Really? A curse? How long did you live?

[chaoschildofgod.livejournal.com]

Are you sure everyone would choose immortality?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

The intelligent ones would.

But then again, the less intelligent deserve to die.

[ex_seventh238]

Goodness, that's presumptuous and naive.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

And you're a mouthy witch.

Care to give a reason as to why it is, or are you just going to say that it is?

[souris-keteer.livejournal.com]

Well... I wouldn't.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Let me guess: because you wouldn't want to watch your friends get old and die and yada yada yada you'd be alone. Right?

late but herp

[peonymarket.livejournal.com]

Immortality's not for everyone.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah? Why's that?

[nessbound.livejournal.com]

I.. I don't think it's right for anyone to be here for more than they're destined to be here. It'd be nice to be able to stay a kid for all eternity, but eventually yo-yo tricks lose their coolness, and inevitably, all children become adults.

Death is the ultimate adventure. We're only here for a short time, and immortality just stands in the way of finding out the great mystery of our existence. I'd rather see what the next world has to offer, than live in a world where I know the ins and outs.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

But knowing the ins and outs of the world is a big, big advantage.

And what if there isn't anything beyond this world?