How old do you want to live to?

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During my childhood I used to have to dream to somehow become immortal. I have always admired things that say me that it is possible to be an immortal. As I gradually grew up, I understood that if there is birth there will always be death and it is the natural phenomenon. Some part of my brain still believes that it is quite possible to become immortal. I have heard so many stories of people who lived an immortal life. Those were maybe stories but I know for sure that people were able to at least prolongate their life per their wish and they lived a long life compared to others. I would prefer choosing a life with longevity like a tortoise. 

I have heard about how Tortoise lives a longer life compared to human beings or any other living beings. I was too curious to know how to increase my life span. I even found answers. I took tortoise for comparison and one strong point I found was that the count of breathing we do in our life. The count of breathing that a tortoise do is very less compared to that of humans. I read somewhere that it is one of the important contributing factors for longevity. 

Upon my exploration I really found interesting things about longevity. Not just breath, but food, sleep and the amount of energy we spend, stress factors, physical activity and so many things contribute to the longevity of a person. Even the mental pressure and stress can also be a contributing factor for longevity. This subject was quite interesting to explore but then later after all the realizations that happened, I started thinking why we should live a long life and what will be the purpose. Then all my perspectives changed. I have just started to add value and work towards fulfilling the main purpose of my life and also what I really want to achieve. 

With the lifestyle that I live today, I think it is difficult for me to cross even 60-70 years. I feel that every day with my actions and activities I'm somehow contributing to the reduction of my life span. I've not been able to do things that will help in prolongation of my life. So from a practical perspective, I would say, it will be ideal if I lived for around 60 - 70 years. But only if I'm adding some value to this world for being alive. If I'm not going to add any value to this world or people and other natural beings in this world, then there is no point in living till I become too old. 

Difficulties in old age

I would say that everyone will always want to live a long life. No one will want to die soon. It is quite natural. But we have to understand something. Longevity is not going to be easy at all. That too if we are highly dependent on someone for something then longevity is not something that is going to be easy. Old age comes with lots of difficulties. For people who have health issues, old age can be a great punishment because they will have to be dependent on others even for their basic needs. This will affect people mentally. Some people even hit death because of that mental stress and for some people death will not happen immediately and make them suffer a lot. 

Considering all the difficulties in old age, I would like to say that it is good to die as soon as our responsibilities are over in this world. I really don't wish to continue living forever if that is not going to be easy. I have old people in my family. I see them suffering. Even though people in my family take good care of them, there are some natural instabilities which no one can help them out. They will be forced to live a life with so many difficulties. 

When I really want to die?

I feel that every human being should find the purpose of their life. every living being in this world is kind of unique contributions to the balance of this ecosystem. By nature's creation, every living being contributes their part before they die. Some flies just live for one day. But they really contribute their part to this world before they die. So I would like to die only after understanding what my real purpose of this life is. You can call it a spiritual journey or how ever you want it to be. There is also another wish for me. When I die, there should be some people who would really think that I added some value to this world. That is when I would like to die. 

On a final note, death is something that can hit us at any time. We have to be mentally ready for it. This moment I'm talking to you but next moment anything can happen to me because last century this time we were not here and the next century at the same time we are not going to be here. So we have to remember that we are not permanent in this world. That is when we will be able to explore and understand what the real purpose of our life is. We have so much of emotions and desires inside us. But what will happen to them the next moment we die. If we are able to think about all these things then we can say that even if death hits us at any time it is not going to be a problem. We would have already added value in this life to this ecosystem. 

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