Dag nab it!! It read the durned book!! Now I'm all thinking about time and stuff again. I wonder why it depresses me so much. There is a total lesson to be learned from that book and I get it and I agree with it, but there is a little part of me that says, "whoa, living forever would be Great!" I guess the topic of whether I should drink or not is probably never going to come up, but I can still think about it as a hypothetical question. If I did live forever, that would mean that there wouldn't have to be any rush as to anything I did. If we lived longer, would we still get the same amount of stuff done, but only do it slower? Or if we had shorter lives, would we manage to squeeze it all in? So in that vein, someone who lived forever wouldn't get anything done, because they would always have more time in which to finish it. That sucks. There goes my whole, why I would want to live forever argument. sigh Why are we, I in particular, so afraid of dying? Because we don't know what happens afterward? It doesn't really matter, I think, because it's not like we'll be conscious of our deadness. I think some people are afraid of that, that they'll still be them, but that it will be all dark or something of the sort. Death is a funny thing, without it, there wouldn't be life. All cliché, I know, but it's true. Like Tuck said in the book, the stream keeps on flowing and makes a circle. If the end of the circle stopped, then the beginning wouldn't be able to happen. Like those time predicaments where it couldn't happen beause it never could have happened the first time, or something. unh