I had read this story many days back, where an interesting phenomena was described along with eternity of the Tibetan monks or lamas. The long lives are associated with oscillation of growth and decay. Take a normal persons life, concatenate to it the life of Benjamin Button, and repeat this pair in a loop, that is how a eternal/long life is described upon in the book.
Keeping apart the authenticity of this logic, life can be viewed from another angle. Was watching this film on one of the popular mutants. The advantage of having an eternal hero is manifold. Bring him back from exile anytime, solo or team, to fight evil, and send him back. But what captures my interest is the repetition of the cycle, redoing things, again and again, with possible perfection added. Is it better to have life this way? With chances to correct things, learn again, share again, love again, hate again, befriend again, fight again?
It might be good to have that chance when one is eternal. But when eternity is kept aside, and one keeps repeating a certain phase, doesn't that mean missing out the complementary phases? It is like redrawing one arc of a circle, when the whole circle is still incomplete. It might happen that this arc is the best part of life, but what is best without the worst to complement it?
The thought keeps repeating. A gloomy day with incessant rains. Few concerns, inability to anything about it. Or to be exact, inability to bring out the will to do anything about it. And a major decision. Going back to that day 8 years back, the onset of the college days. I should be feeling happy to get the chance to redraw the arc. But am I? Am I not missing something that could be complementing the phase already completed?
Am I running away?
