How does one attain immortality? - asks Milan Kundera
There is minor immortality and major immortality. We all seek to be immortals - to be remembered after we have passed on. We even seek immortality in life; at least we hope to.
We seek immortality in someone else's life ... even after the person has departed; even after we have departed from someone. We leave an imprint and the more we love, the more we carve an etch and that person leaves his/hers.
It never really goes away and I can only conclude that pain is an adjunct to immortality. We become heightened in awareness of it only when that person departs.
And the episode on Jan 1 made me aware of my own immortality? Do I live still in that person? Because I know that person still lives in me - everyday; every waking moment.
Immortality ... perhaps it should not be desired.
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