Immortality
When I was 9 years of age, I wanted to be a scientist. I wanted to create the elixir of life so that my parents would live on forever.
I never became a scientist. That's because I learned that no matter how hard I tried, it was beyond my powers to go against the science of nature. Human beings are not immortal. And there's nothing I or anybody else could do about it! God knows the anguish and disillusionment I suffered, face to face with the hard truths of life.
Since then, I had never really felt such intensed emotions on the subject of human mortality, that is, not until tonight. Tonight, once again, how I wished I had the power to prevent deaths. My parents are in their 60's. My mentor is almost 90 years old. I shudder to think that one day, I may wake up to discover that I am robbed of them forever......... And that, presently, remains my greatest fear.
I never became a scientist. That's because I learned that no matter how hard I tried, it was beyond my powers to go against the science of nature. Human beings are not immortal. And there's nothing I or anybody else could do about it! God knows the anguish and disillusionment I suffered, face to face with the hard truths of life.
Since then, I had never really felt such intensed emotions on the subject of human mortality, that is, not until tonight. Tonight, once again, how I wished I had the power to prevent deaths. My parents are in their 60's. My mentor is almost 90 years old. I shudder to think that one day, I may wake up to discover that I am robbed of them forever......... And that, presently, remains my greatest fear.
posted by Lin at 2:07 AM
1 Comments:
i have the very same fear, of my grandma, parents, uncles n aunts going to a place i can't reach them. it broke my heart when my grandpa went away 2 years back... then i found a book recently, "Tuesdays With Morrie" by Mitch Albom. a really great book, anyone with the same fear should haf a look at it.
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