I have often lamented the fact that I don’t have multiple lifetimes to:
- pursue all my interests deeply
- to fall in love a million times
- to learn every language and culture
- to get to know every human deeply
- to finally read all the books that I have bought that are collecting dust on my shelf

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

Yet, perhaps it’s a feature (not a bug) of our lives. because if we had infinite time — would there really be an urgency to figure out a way to shove as much of this as we possibly can into one life? and live as brightly as we can?

Think that's why arucard in Hellsing is so thrilled at conflict. He lived many centuries he doesn't die. He tried it all, at least in fight he still feels some excitement. I guess anyway, maybe one shouldn't use a horror vampire anime for deep wisdom. But imo he suffers from a lot of boredom.

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Agreed - this is a great analogy 

I imagine one would have not been sure if they would be lambasted (or not) in the 17th century for quoting, at the time,  such a modern and blasphemous writer like Voltaire’s Candide.