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| Dragons are immortal - didn't you know that? I say that if you have to pick a picture of a dragon to illustrate your blog, you should pick a good one. This is a good one. |
A few weeks ago, one of the daily freebie
Kindle books was 1000 Awesome Writing Prompts by Ryan Andrew Kinder. I’ve written about prompt #2, and prompt #7 in
last week’s blog. The next one to interest me was prompt #10: “You are given an
opportunity for immortality. Do you take it or decline?” Oooh – I’d take it. I do know that my
immortal life could end ‘not with a bang but a whimper’ – a whimper of boredom
when everyone else has gone – or in a fiery inferno as our sun dies. But we’re
merely speculating here, so the end really doesn’t signify.
I’ve written before how When I Get to Heaven, God is going to
have pictures for me to see some of the events I’d like to have seen from the
past. Well, living forever, I can look ahead to things I might see in the
future. Cars that run on water? Widespread and inexpensive use of solar and
wind power? More and more features built into our personal electronic devices?
Cures for everything from the common cold to the worst cancers. There has been
so much change in the last century that it is a given that there will be more
amazing things to come.
I know that unless the extraterrestrials come
soon enough and we all band together – the eternal ‘them’ against ‘us’ – this
world is going to see a lot more strife. Whereas in not all but much of our
previous history, war has been caused by greed and expansionism, most the newer
conflicts now seem to be caused by intolerance. Where will it end? When will it
end? I’d like to be around to know that.
I’ve read enough fiction about those, like
vampires, who’ve lived for hundreds of years, and those like the immortals
who’ve been around since it all started. One of my persistent questions, one
rarely answered, is how do you keep the mortals from guessing why you’re around
so long - just keep changing your address, of course – and how do you hold on
to your funds? I suppose you would leave it to yourself
under a new name at that new address. I think that, given the proper
circumstances, I’d happily deal with these problems. Birth certificates, Social
Security numbers, bank accounts? I’d be immortal, I could figure it out.
I do hope that if I do become immortal I will also become a few decades younger. If I stayed at my current age of 72, I’d have to move quite often because folks would become wary of an already-old lady who is about to outlive the neighbors. And I’d want to be in the shape I was in when I was 52, maybe even 42. Yes, as long as I’m writing this piece of speculative fiction, I might as well choose 42. I weigh now what I weighed then, but it has all sagged
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| Dragons live more than a thousand years - I'd love to have a dragon friend forever. A "realio, trulio, little pet dragon." |
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