If I Could Live Forever, What Person Would I Have Become?

By Priyanshu Patel

"The one I will become is the one I'm not,

The one I'm not is the one I thought,

The one I thought is the one I won’t."

If someone could possibly live forever, they would die every single day—because they would have no reason to smile, no reason to cry, no reason to try, no reason to leave, and no reason to live.

I would have become a person who knows everything, who fears nothing, who feels nothing, who reacts to nothing. I would just exist—without hunger, without fulfillment, with nothing to lose, and nothing to gain. The pain of everything would have repeated so many times that nothing would ever shock me again. I would reject all pain, even the pain of dying.

Eventually, I would have become a god—because I would live for nothing and die for nothing. All I would do is exist and help. If everyone except me were unable to live for eternity, I would have become a source—a source of knowledge, a source of existence, and a source of death.

"I would choose dying a hundred times over living forever."

By Priyanshu Patel