Immortality and the Internet

For eons man has been concerned, worried and thoroughly consumed over the thought of immortality or rather coming to grips understanding it and accepting the fact that they are mortal. Nothing or no one was created to last forever, not in the mortal sense anyway. But none the less that has not stopped man in his endevours to find his own immortality, to find that forever in his life. Why I would think would they want to, it would seem to me that after a while all you would be doing is existing, seeing man's mistakes made over and over again.

Since the beginning of recorded time man has made it a passion to create his own immortality, setting his legacy in history for future generations. This is how we learned of Alexander the Great, Caesar, Cleopatra, the Great Ages of time around the world and their memorable leaders. Scribes recorded, stone masons chiseled in stone, weavers wove into tapestries and painters set to canvas the works and wonders of their age. Immortalizing people and events of their time so that their legacy would live past their mortality.

Is it vain to want to be remembered or to live a life longer than what we have been designed to live? Is it vainity or afraid that one would be forgotten once they have been placed in their eternal resting place? That once the tears stop that they are no longer remembered and thought about and any "unfinished" business will go forever undone? I guess there are as many reasons as there are questions when it comes to life, the fulfillment of it and the ending of it.

The Internet has given everyone that opportunity to immortalize themselves. No one needs to have had performed great or heroic deeds to be recorded for the future and read long after they are gone. It is longer lasting than chiseled stone that erodes with the passing of time and you do not have to travel outside of your own home for it to be read. It has been recorded and saved. It will always be there and as the passing of time goes on, others will either by accident or purpose come across your words and read them and in doing so assures your immortality.

People have taken great advantage of this and are recording their life to the most infinite detail and some to an even greater extent to the point of boredom. But even that will be read by future generations beyond their years. It is the new age artist's new canvas to paint with a pallet of words a picture of such detail that there is no guessing as to what they wanted one to see. It gives everyone that chance man has desired to be able to have their words remembered and securing their legacy in some fashion.

9-11
Today we remember those who were lost to those who do not value life. Those who without cause or reason forfeited their lives because someone else decided that they had the right to end their life. We lend our thoughts to them, husbands, wives, sons and daughters who tragically lost their lives on that day. They will be remembered as heros and heroines, those on which this country and its beliefs now rest in, they are the very foundation on which this country is built on and perserved. To those we lost, we loved and we cherished, Rest in Peace.

After Thought
As I have no other way of finding out why or the reason for it, I will say it on here.

I have said many times there are those that come and go in our lives. Some we are happy to see leave and then there are others that seem to tear your heart out of your chest for they left such an impression on you that they will never be forgotten.

The ostrisizing and banning of someone and shutting them out is like a death. Many ancient tribes considered far worse than death to be thought of as nonexistent. A living death.

Be that as it may, people today have their reasons for what they do to another, most are petty and childish, but then again it sheds light on who they are.

Later...

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