I feel the fact that because our life is limited, we have incentive to do things. Knowing you have an eternity to do things would seem to take that incentive away, since you know you could do that thing tomorrow and the next day and the following day for 100 years and still have forever beyond that. There'd be no urgency. Think about vacation. Lets say you're going to Florida. You love it. You have a great time, weather is fantastic, and you do all kinds of great stuff. Now, what if you moved there? All of those things would get old, and fast. My sister lives there and she barely ever goes to the beach, since she knows it's always there and thinks it's nothing special. What gives it meaning is that it's temporal and novel, and that you only have a set time there. It's also that you know you'll be going back to work, school, what have you. If your whole life was a vacation, it wouldn't be vacation at all.
The only kind of "immortality" I would ever enjoy having would be the kind I could opt out of. I'd like awhile to be around, but I would loathe the thought of never having a way out.
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