As a pet owner, i enjoy playing with my pets even though i outlive them
Man, I’ve had this bird here for almost 30 years. I’m pretty sure it’s going to outlive me. Which is a real bummer.
It’s kind of sexist to call women birds these days. /s
Anyone you love can randomly die at any time. Most people still look for it.
Anyone could randomly die, yes.
Knowing for a fact that the person you love will inevitably die while you will live forever is another story.
Plenty of people still get dogs knowing that the dog will die long before them. Many of those people never get another pet because of the pain from losing the one they loved. It’s like that but on an eternal scale.
This isn’t even a can situation. Except for those rare cases of two partners during together in an accident, one of your will die before the other. This hypothetical situation isn’t hypothetical, it’s the norm.
And immortality doesn’t change anything. One person dies and the survivor grieves. After some years, you get over it. Life goes on. It’s not that you don’t still miss the person, but life goes on, and the pain fades. This happens in mortal timelines, immortality doesn’t make the scenario any more poignant.
I’ve had pets all my life - to me they were family members and I dearly loved each and every one of them. Yes it hurts to have to say goodbye after a few years or even decades, but I would never decide to no longer want that light in my life just because it won’t burn forever.
I wouldn’t think differently about the humans that are dear to me, even if it’s not the same situation. What’s the point of throwing away love just because it doesn’t last for all eternity? Why would anyone chose to not enjoy the time you can spend together for as long as it may last? Everything ends one day, that’s the very nature of existence.
Highlander, as well as being a great fantasy movie, explores these themes a little.
If you haven’t seen it, I’d strongly suggest watching it.
“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”
The answer pretty much everyone would give is “yes”. Think of it this way: you’re gonna die in real life, right? Does that mean you’re not going to love?
The real interesting question is after a century or two, when you start treating your lovers like an old man on his tenth dog.
I don’t understand what you mean, but I am intrigued O:
This question is less interesting when in context of how we normally think about loved ones, being that they are around for most of your life.
When you immortal that’s no longer the case, you’ll eventually have a relationship with loved ones similar to a person who has had countless pets over the course of their life. The love a person holds for their pet is real, but it isn’t exactly the same as “the love of your life”.
Forever is a long time yo.
I getcha.
Aragorn and Arwen in Gondor.
Arwen died from a broken heart a year after Aragon passed.
That’s the first time I’ve heard that, for real?
But also, it doesn’t matter, they still made that decision and they couldn’t have known.
Iirc they did know, or at least Arwen did. Elrond says something to the effect that she will be giving up her eternal life when he’s trying to talk her out of being with Aragorn.
Yup she straight up went out into the woods to lie down and die iirc
Yes. I’ll get over it eventually. I’ll have time.
Lovers will part anyway at some point so why not putting everything you’ve got into that relationship?
Yes, even though I’m tasting a bit of that bitterness now. The love of my life and I were married for 18 years and raised a couple of wonderful kids … then she moved on to greener pastures. It may not be quite the same but my taste of bliss is gone forever. Despite the loss, I would not want anything changed
After 2 or 3 millennia (1,000 years) I would probably have to work hard to retain empathy for ephemeral life (finite in any form e.g. 100 years for humans). Perspective: I cried over a spider when I was small, but now will apply raid or another poison if a spider is in my house. I now consider moles, voles, and house cats who are allowed to exterminate birds (outside cats) to be worthy of population reduction tactics.
Yeah still give it a go because if you’re immortal then you will get over the death of a loved one eventually
I imagine the morning period would get shorter with each wife. I don’t know how long it would take, but assuming the world doesn’t burn up too soon, you’d probably eventually become numb to it.
Would that potentially mean you also become numb to the happiness and joys of love?
That’s very possible, though I think you would still be looking for happiness, so you’d probably start looking for love in people that don’t necessarily fit your original “type” from hundreds of years ago. Or, maybe you don’t get numb from partners dying because you learn not to get too attached before that happens. You might stop looking for long term relationships completely.
Yes. …but you had me really confused for a moment there.
Mourning is what we do when people die. I mean not always ofc, but you get what I mean.
Morning is the early part of the day.
Auto correct. 🤷🏻♂️
Fair sorry lol
I’d have a room with all their faces in picture frames that I can cum on whenever I want.
