I read Discover magazine. When I was a kid, my parents made me read it or I chose to read it all by my lonesome. Take your pick. It stuck.
Discover magazine is geek porn. Why do men become aroused (not jealous) by cuckoldry? Why can the eye see a solar eclipse but a camera can’t catch it without multiple exposures? Well, a lucky day is upon you, because for a small sum per year, all the questions you never cared to ask will all be answered.
Don’t be ashamed if you have to read every paragraph more than once just to not be confused as shit. Smart people love to see people look confused.
What if aging didn’t occur? In other words, what if there was a gene that is responsible for aging? Call it the I’m-fine-but-your-fucked gene. So you can still die from cancer, disease, getting hit by a bus, or by sleep-walking into a wood chipper. But you don’t age. And until natural causes come knocking, you live forever at that age.
What would it be like to wake up at 95 years old and still look 18? Every. Single. Day.
And here is the “duh” moment: in an ageless world, people will not only seek out death but create circumstances to create death, and therefore, create meaning.
Because truth be told, aging serves you to wake you the fuck up. It speaks to you. See me? I’m called wrinkles and I’m called loss of memory and I’m called loss of agility and I want to go to bed at 9pm. That’s you telling you that time is ticking. Do something with yourself. Now.
The mere visibility of aging creates a commotion in your soul. The idea that you will get shelved. Not the exact moment, but some time that becomes sometime sooner every time you pass a mirror.
Life is precious because it is finite. Maybe somewhere between 13-23 the I-don’t-give-a-fuck gene shuts off this feed to the brain, but eventually it will fast-fry your ass. Hard. It can happen at 25 or 65, but it will happen.
It’s shitty to feel older (exercise, sex, and moisturizer all help, in that order), but the point is that it’s integral to your ability to live life to it’s fullest by at least appearing older.
So look in the mirror. How do you feel? How do you look? What will you do with today?
And now for a hot chick:
