Unintentionally Profound..

What if humans lived for more than a couple of centuries?? What if the average life span of human beings was 200 years?

That could be a good thing and bad.
The people we love would be around forever. We could take time growing up and finding our love without worrying about biological clocks, time running out, children growing up, parents growing old. Would the concept of love change? Atleast we would need a ‘love’ that holds for a couple of centuries.
We would be less afraid to make mistakes as we would have a longer time to correct them. And as a result, maybe live more free (Or reckless??). We would have more time to pursue our interests and things we feel passionate about. You could spend 20-30 years just traveling the world.

Memories would span a couple of hundred years; you could devise ways to preserve history forever. Would fashions and fads be as short lived or have longer cycles? Longer I guess.
You could oversee development over a couple of lifetimes. Imagine the kind of progress we could have if the scientists lived 200 years on an average! You could take 50 years to become an adult and another 150 to date and marry and raise kids and the last 50 years of old age.
Would it get boring living through the same things over such a long period of time? Would we get more out of life that we now cannot? Or would we become lazier (relax!i know thats not a word) knowing we have all the time?

The relationships would be longer. I don’t know if that’s such a good thing especially for bad relationships. Also, it would be difficult to start over or have new beginnings. Or maybe easier knowing you would be here longer. We would need to work harder to make relationships work and last over 150 years or more.
The grudges could be held forever. The love - hate relationships would last over centuries. Dictators would need to be manually finished off to end tyranny. And wars could last forever.
You would need prisons to hold people longer. The infrastructure would need to outlast the human age span which in itself would be a challenge.
An economic crisis like the current one could be just a small blip in the long lives of most people. Would we still attach so much value to being young when we could be young for around 150 years?

Would we progress any faster or slower? Since we have so much time at our disposal we could take forever to develop something that we now complete in 20 years due to stress and the knowledge that we don’t last forever.

Would the values change? Would you treat women as equal to men? Would you not discriminate on race? Would we stop working hard at our relationships or get bored as quickly as we do now? Would we stop the violence? Would it be easier to overcome differences? I have a feeling it would be harder to reconcile differences as peoples’ memory would no longer be that short.
Would we forgive easily when we remember the gruesome brutalities of communalism/ riots/ wars or terrorism forever? How would you forgive if you will never forget? Would human race be wiser? I have a feeling it would just be older and none the wiser. Only time would loose its importance.

Would you value Einstein if you could meet him today and also know that he’ll be around for another 200 years? The romance of the past is in knowing its long gone and has taken its mysteries with it.

Would you be interested in Titanic if everyone aboard had survived and is around today to tell you how it went?

Life is in the transient. We love the ‘heat of the moment’ because we know the moment will pass. The high of an impulsive action is in knowing that it doesn’t last forever, in the chase of wanting more in a time span that’s fast evaporating.

If you don’t do it now, you might never get a chance to do it again. And that is why it is so precious. If you make a mistake, you might never get a chance to set it right ever again. If you don’t forgive, you will forget once you die. So others CAN start over.

The beauty of life is in the fact that it perishes; it’s a bubble in the vast sea of time.

It is the knowledge of death that gives LIFE its true meaning.