Kajetan Maciuszko - blog

Would you like to live 250 years? I personally wouldn't like to live 250 years, and there are a few very good reasons for it. Longer life would of course give you more time to do things that you hadn’t an occasion to try before, but considering that our bodies would age at the same speed as before, after a certain age we would be too old to do anything other than lie in bed all day. Second reason is that the country would have to spend much more money on pensions, which could potentially cripple the entire nation. Lengthening our lives to such degree would cause too many problems, and that is why I am against it.

Why do people often think that the past was better than the present or future ? Belief that past was better than present of future is widespread and caused by a few interesting factors. The main reason for its existence is, in my opinion, sentimentality to the past, otherwise known as nostalgia, which bases on person’s deep connection to the specific period in it’s past, like a warm childhood. Another reason for people’s fear of present and future is its unpredictability and unknowingness, and people fear what is unknown. Some people may also fear the future because of things they know will happen, for example that they will die. Overall, majority of people look fondly to the past and fearfully to the future, and there is pretty much nothing we can do about it.