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Mirrors are Windows, I'll Have You Know !!!
I don't like to think of myself as looking as old as I plainly do.
When I look in the mirror, I gasp, "That can't be me"
I like to think of myself the way i looked 30 years ago.
I feel younger when i do, somehow, it seems.
So I have come up with a solution:
the mirror isn't a mirror at all !!
Rather a window, and the man looking back at me
Isn't me, my reflection, rather its just some old dithering coot
looking in from outside - invading my privacy. The nerve !!
Be on your way, old boy, i feel like sternly ordering him.
If only ridding oneself of the curse of old age were so simple.
If only the aging process could be warded off so easily.
As by the dishonest use of the imagination - "helpful" lies !!!.
When I look in the mirror, I gasp, "That can't be me"
I like to think of myself the way i looked 30 years ago.
I feel younger when i do, somehow, it seems.
So I have come up with a solution:
the mirror isn't a mirror at all !!
Rather a window, and the man looking back at me
Isn't me, my reflection, rather its just some old dithering coot
looking in from outside - invading my privacy. The nerve !!
Be on your way, old boy, i feel like sternly ordering him.
If only ridding oneself of the curse of old age were so simple.
If only the aging process could be warded off so easily.
As by the dishonest use of the imagination - "helpful" lies !!!.
Published 4th Sep 2016
| Edited 25th Sep 2016
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4th Sep 2016 2:06am
25th Sep 2016 11:34pm
Anonymous
4th Sep 2016 2:42am
Well. if we didn't age, it would screw up the eco system or some system or structure somewhere.
Yes, we need to make room for the younger generation by retiring and "passing on."
I wonder just how the world will change when people get to live to be 200 years old before dying.
I mean science is about able to manipulate certain things - they're already enabled worms, etc to double their life spans.Up til now you become mature, wise but then it's time to die.If people had twice as much time to live, perhaps they would devote the second half of life to philanthropic causes, altruism.If people lived twice as long, perhaps society would have to pass laws limiting the number of babies allowed per family. And laws requiring only qualified parents to have kids, ie educated parents.
Say goodbye to the infamous "underclass," good riddance.
I wonder just how the world will change when people get to live to be 200 years old before dying.
I mean science is about able to manipulate certain things - they're already enabled worms, etc to double their life spans.Up til now you become mature, wise but then it's time to die.If people had twice as much time to live, perhaps they would devote the second half of life to philanthropic causes, altruism.If people lived twice as long, perhaps society would have to pass laws limiting the number of babies allowed per family. And laws requiring only qualified parents to have kids, ie educated parents.
Say goodbye to the infamous "underclass," good riddance.
4th Sep 2016 3:39am
25th Sep 2016 11:53pm
Yes, living to be 150 to 200 should be a boon to prosperity. Investments, people will be able to become millionaires due to compound interest. I did a study that showed that if you own stock that goes up 10% annually, you double in value every 7 years - due to compound interest. The trouble is that it takes like 50 years (7 x 7 years) to really get rich. But if you have an additional 50 to 100 years that 50 years it takes for compound interest to work won't seem so intolerable.
