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.

[ponypuncher.livejournal.com]

But if ya got yer head lopped off, immortality wouldn't do ya any good.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah-

Well-

That's why you find ways to get around that. Like, to keep it from happening and all. And if you're immortal, you've probably had enough time to think on it, so you know a way to cheat it.

[ponypuncher.livejournal.com]

Aye, there's that but would ya really wanna go on like that while everyone ya knew died 'round ya? It wouldn't bother me too much, but yer still young. Eventually ya'd think people would start thinkin' somethin' was up and boom, yer an outcast just like that. Ya'd have no friends, no comrades--Ya'd probably be looked down upon like ya were dirt, too.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Well, what if this person was already looked at that way? So it's not like there'd be any LOSS for the guy to take immortality. Honestly, it'd be the one advantage he could have.

[ponypuncher.livejournal.com]

Even loneliness? Ya'd go crazy if ya didn't have anyone to talk to.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Well okay then maybe you could...could talk to people, but just never, y'know, grow real close to them?

I mean, it's not like loneliness is that bad....

[ponypuncher.livejournal.com]

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yes. Just because someone isn't there to hear it doesn't mean physical laws no longer apply. Sound would still be created.

[Hypothetical questions? What the hell is that shit?]