Yes, I kind of exaggerated the age point, because you pointed out there might not always be enough time left to achieve what we want.
And while that is true to a degree (if you're lying on your death bed, you probably won't have time to learn to play the guitar like Jimi Hendrix), as I was trying to point out, even old people have lots of value to provide to society.
Anyway, what I believe in is that whatever happens to us in this reality (or what we think is real) can't actually hurt us. I'm not a full subscriber to the "Subjective Reality" paradigm, but I do follow a certain "holographic universe" line of thinking. So basically, what we experience here, is like a movie to us, or like a play in a theatre. We play certain roles that we act out (our human lifetime), then we "die", or "wake up". I liken this to waking up from a dream. In our dreams, we can be a multitude of different characters, and when we wake, these characters stay with us (if we happen to remember our dreams), they are us, but we are more than just them.
Similarly, I believe that after we die, we awaken to a bigger "us", and incorporate our life experiences into what we are, similarly to (although in a more detailed and more sophisticated way) how we incorporate lessons or interesting experiences from our dreams into who we are.
So, basically, while I don't want this to be seen as a perfect excuse to procrastinate, if we don't manage to "get" or achieve something in a particular lifetime, we can come back down here and finish what we started.
The trouble is....we need to go through another full lifetime again for that, so usually it's best not to run away from what we came here to do.
BUT...if things happen to turn out for the worst...all we lose is time...and time doesn't really exist outside our "physical virtuality" in the same way it does here.
If you want to discuss this particular aspect (holographic universe, infinite realities, etc) in more depth, let's take it to PM, or Email, or just another thread.
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