Thursday, 1 August 2019

Are we living because we cannot die? (by Ayesha)



Ayesha Rifath


No one has to work. It's got a nice ring to it. But what would this species do when they don't have anything to do? Are they living? Or just surviving because they cannot die? There are people who make bucket lists, but cannot check all of it because we don't have time or money (even though it's just an excuse). Now that we have all the time and money, would we really spend time on checking our bucket list. I think we would! No one is going to sit idle, that's for sure.

Thing one on my "Would-do" list- Make a list. A list of things we want to do.

Thing two. Pack my bags. Because i want to solo travel every place I can. More precisely, I want to visit every single library/ book house in the world. Even if I cannot read every book. I just want to spend time around books, any books. Books of knowledge or books of entertainment. Travel to a city, enter library, pick the first book that grabs my attention and read it. Read it till I get bored or I finish it and move on to the next. Next Book or Library, which ever excites me at the moment.

While I am at the whole travelling, I also wish to taste every single street food of the world. Every country has some unique kind of street food and tasting each of it would be a dream come true!
This is something that I can do regardless of the situation in the world! This is living for me, because it's what I want to do. Doing something we are compelled to do, kills us!

So, eventually when an AI takes over the work force, my purpose will not change and it will not affect what I want to do. Even though this is an idealistic situation, I hope humans do not "not do anything". I hope we all find a passion and actually work on it even if we don't have to "work" as such.

 "Live your life" they say, but are we actually living? Or are we just not dying?

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