I have always imagined what it would be like to live long and healthy, you know, but not the type that we see when a person becomes all wrinkled and weak. I would prefer something close to the vampire style, of course I would not want to chase long lives only to survive on human blood, but I can chase it if it means I grow 1 year every 10 years. This would mean that by the time the 300 years elapse, I would have only aged 30 years. Considering my current age, that would be a blast, I would have seen it all for the last three centuries and still not have clocked 60.
But then again, this comes at a price, but one I think I can bear. That is watching everyone I know now die. I will only be able to bear it if I can find a purpose for living. I would like to find something that goes more in the direction of building a legacy than merely seeing the world. Of course I would want to see the world and all, but it would be mainly for the purpose of building a legacy that my generation can live on. And apart from building the legacy, I would have 300 years to nurture it, 300 years to teach every successor what they need to know from experience.
I know there will be a time when everything will seem meaningless as though there is nothing worth living for, especially when I have seen different evolution of things, I would have witnessed wars, and seen power change hands more times than I can count. I would have even been involved in some of those power tussles myself, not the one trying to get into power, but the one behind the scene controlling it. I guess it would be one of the legacies my family would get to enjoy.
Let’s be real, long life in itself is power, it gives what almost every human wish to have which is TIME. When you know you have time, you could do a lot, although there are those who would definitely waste it, but even if you do for the first 20 years, you begin to see that there is more to life than just enjoying one's self, you begin to crave something deeper, something higher than what you could have imagined. For me, that would be building a legacy, I would have to just accept the fact that I will outlive everyone that knows me, and just focus on the future hoping when my time comes, I would have done enough for my generation.
