re: If you were truly immortal, how would you pass the time?

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What things would you do to pass the time?

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there can be only one!!!!


Im taking heads and all that lighting power that comes with it

Considerations:

You shouldn't engage in any activity where it might be possible for you to be trapped for a lifetime. No spelunking, no visits to remote atolls or solo sailing trips across the Pacific. No trips to the moon.

It's easy to say "invest and earn compound interest." But you would have to be very mindful of where your money is and move it from market to market as nations and civilizations die. I'm sure as the hundreds of years go by, this sort of information would become harder and harder to remember. You should have material commodities stored somewhere, like gold, that only you can access as well.

You will have to move frequently to protect your secret. You will have to create a false identity every 70 years or so and that false identity needs to have access to your investments. That will get old after about 50 lifetimes or so.

Time will begin to accelerate for you in ways you don't expect. As you age, a year will become almost inconsequential to you. For someone who is 5 years old, a year is 20% of their lifetime. For a 50 year old, it's 2%. For a 500 year old... you get the idea. This will become problematic as you try to conceal your identity. You WILL lose track of time at some point, and slip somewhere along the line. This will also greatly alter your personal philosophy and relationships with others. You won't be the same as you think you will be. You will be greatly affected by your perception of time. This to me, would be the greatest challenge of being immortal.