Long Life

What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?

In Indian mythology there are two great avatar who are believed living long life.

God Hanuman and Ashwatthama. Former because of blessings of lord Ram and Seeta and latter because of the curse.

Anyway, long life – I really don’t want to have.

In Hindi movie ‘Anand’, there is a dialogue by protagonist Rajesh Khanna – “Babu moshay zindagi badi honi chahiye, lambi nahi” – [my friend, life should be large and not long.]

I too believe in this. As a human being there are no limits to our ambitions and living long life can be one of those.

We should try completing our duties here on earth, taking care and plan future of our coming generation, love, help and assist our elderly.

Make and maintain good relations with everyone (though difficult these days), and bid adieu to the world.

Looking at current way of living life, long living will come with many issues and may limit our way of living it.

So, instead of being a burden to others, it’s better to finish journey as early as possible.

Also, lastly I must put from the recent reading when a famous Indian cricketer took retirement, the newspaper put, “ it’s good to retire surprising people asking “why” than taking too long and people saying “why not”.