Immortality | WS

-- Published this post for the sake of having it out there. Total WIP (Work in Progress).

It is possible to imitate immortality, because if your memories are preserved, you are preserved.

Everyone knows about self preservation, right? It's why we're all so weary of death and passing away. It's also easy to see how, usually, wealthier people tend to fear the end to a greater extent then would a poorer man. The reason? They realize all the things they've accumulated over their life time ends the moment they do. You take your last breath, and then what? Your items go to family, or auction. Your name is erased from many lists at this point and added to the obituary and your tome stone.

What do we really leave? I'm one human of what, 6 billion? 1 of 6,000,000,000. And the number grows daily. Numerically I'm equivalent to 0% of the population (Usually in math when talking about large numbers incredible small numbers lose their value and become 0). Every action I make is irrelevant, every life I influence makes no difference. If there was ever a real example of the definition of hopelessness, this would be it. For the sake of making this all just a tiny bit worse, I'm pretty sure our galaxy (Note that I said galaxy, not solar system) is probably only 1 of hundreds of trillions. If you look at it that way, you could almost safely say that anything the entire human race achieves is mathematically 0.

Now! Don't jump off a bridge because of that. Hopefully while you read this you'll have a few names come to mind: Aristotle, Galileo, Lincoln, and countless others. The number of lives they've influenced is probably so large that, again, mathematically the number.. is.. Infinite. Can the same be said about you? I think it can. Already you've started to work out of the number 0. I know many more people then I could ever count. Each of them might, somewhere, in the very back of their head remember me. Many born before me in my family know my name, and my works. The same can be said about people in my family in the future. My children will know me (until they hit their teens) and hopefully stories of me will be passed to their children. The memories of me can live for a handful or two generations before my name starts to fade off. That's just my family. We all have good friends, right?

Comment from me to me; Too much blah.