(April 20, 2016 at 10:01 am)RozKek Wrote: I used to think that way until I saw a commercial which compared the healthy people and the unhealthy people in their old ages, it really changed my thinking. The healthy people were happy, energetic, running around with their grandchildren while the unhealthy ones were lying down, tired, being fed by their grandchildren. I don't want to be the latter :<
Well, I don't want to be either. Put a bullet in me if I reach 70. I've struggled with severe depression my entire adult life, so I'll have lived enough by then. The fight takes too much out of me to prolong the whole thing beyond that.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell