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Overcoming the Fear of Getting Older
To be honest, you have no idea how long you will live anyway.
It could all be over in the next 5 seconds. A stray gunshot, a meteor hitting just your house, or your body giving you a heart attack from simply standing up too quickly.
Who knows what will happen or when it will?
But, on the same notion, you do not know how far your life may yet take you!
Maybe in 5 years from now we will discover the secret to longevity and create a system by which everyone can live twice as long!
Or maybe we figure out how to transplant minds into computers and robots, creating an ever-living body.
Or maybe you just find a cursed or magical artifact in your basement that makes you immortal.
Unlikely… yes. Impossible… No. Just very improbable.
The point here is that you do not know what will happen, regardless of which way you want to go, so why worry about it?
Eventually you will get older and eventually you will die; that is at least very likely to happen.
But it’s not happening yet!
You are alive right now!
Make something happen with that time!
