By florecitamejias on Skatehive
What will my day be like tomorrow? I don’t even know what today will be like, so I can’t plan for another day. As they say: “One day at a time.” Living a long life is perhaps the aspiration of many. If you asked SimĂłn BolĂvar, Mandela, Marilyn Monroe, or Elon Musk, their answer would be “yes, I would live that long”; mine, however, would definitely be no. No one knows when the day and hour will come when our body will go to eternal rest. The soul or spirit, depending on each of our beliefs, is another matter. But our time on this planet will depend on the conditions dictated by the environment—and on a planet where we’re all destroying it! I don’t think I have the heart to stay that long. In my nearly 40 years, I’ve witnessed many things in the world. Of course, I don’t know everything; perhaps in the Congo, Australia, or Singapore, incredible or aberrant things happened that never reached my ears or my mind during this time. Imagine living 300 years, unaware of everything—or, on the o