Seeking Immortality

Immortality as a goal inclines people to some foolish behavior. In order to be remembered they can be destructive as readily as they might be creative. To incline history's judgment in their favor they are liable to settle for the dramatic, rather that consider what might actually be helpful. This immortality seems such a self-centered inclination. Seeking it with such determination invests it with a false value, a value neither faithful to individuals or to humanity as a whole. Better to seek nothing.