From The Roundhole

I was reading today about if people could choose one superpower, what would it be. In a testament to the goodness of men, the number one choice was the power to heal any sickness or wound. But then I read further...it seems that the end result would have been immortality. I thought, maybe that is what I would choose as well, immmortality. Certainly if one could not die, then we would learn and be able to help so many others right? Further thought brings me to the conclusion that people, including myself, choose this because they think, as i sometimes do, that this is it. Once we die, it is over. But is it? Almost all theologies have some version of life everafter. Christian to Taoists, they all believe that there is more to US, than just this. Time therefore becomes the illusion. If we believe that in some form or another, we will always be...then this life is but a minute speck in our overall existense. And in the long run, of little consequense. Except...that makes no sense. We must be here for something. I'm going to go with love and happiness. I can not imagine giving or getting anything better than those two things. Illusion or not.

People change.