> > It is right that my life will end. It is right that the old must clear the way for the young and the new. It is the way of things.
> Lots of people say that but it's because we are resigned to it. We don't have a choice about growing old and dying.
hm, maybe, but that doesn't explain the steep and quick change in my attitude towards the perspective of my own death after my first child was born. i realized how much of the feeling is "the other side" of my sex drive: our primary purpose in life is to procreate so our genes can carry on. once that's fulfilled, the fretting washes away very quickly.
> Lots of people say that but it's because we are resigned to it. We don't have a choice about growing old and dying.
hm, maybe, but that doesn't explain the steep and quick change in my attitude towards the perspective of my own death after my first child was born. i realized how much of the feeling is "the other side" of my sex drive: our primary purpose in life is to procreate so our genes can carry on. once that's fulfilled, the fretting washes away very quickly.