May 11
Eternal life had always been a fantasy haunting human imagination. As it proved to be out of our reach, ancestors invented all sorts of gods endowed with this quality, and restricted their own hopes to more tangible ideals, like living as long as possible. But having a long life full of sores and aches, shortages and failures is not at all better than a short, happy and intense one. To live means, in some respects, to notice your own decay without being able to prevent it.
This decay concerns, at least in part, the loss of beauty and an increased predisposition… Continue reading
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