It seems that the wheel of the year turns much faster as we get older. Maybe there is some comfort in the idea that I may live as long from this point as I have up until now, but that seems like a very short time. I somehow feel short changed being a species that lives a brief 70 to 120 years. Why can't we live to be 10,000 then there would be some perspective of events instead of the brief sliding window that we see the world through. Individuals and societies are all doomed to this myopic vision. Only through record are we able to pass the knowledge of the present to the future.

I can only hope that we one day find a cure to total death - a happy between state where you can stay concious and interactive living a full and joyous after body life in communication with the living world as if you are among them. Sort of a non-zombie post-hominid living in a techno-skeletal form.

One day we may not die, just upgrade to the next version of our physioform that adds physical interfaces to our being, Maybe vacation will be just an electronic transfer of our 'mind' into our vacation body located somewhere else. Then near light speed travel will be a matter of transmitting ourselves from one body to another time-share would take a whole new meaning.

just some thoughts ...

Ahhh It will be the future soon.