Say one day you woke up and no longer knew your age and could choose to be any age you wanted, what age would you choose to be and why?
I would choose an age of 1,000 years or upwards, simply due to my interest in time dilation. What I mean is that one’s perception of time speeds up with age. This makes sense: for instance when you are 10 years of age, a year represents 10% of your life, and seems like a very long time. However, when you are 50 years old, one year has reduced to only 2% of your life, and hence seems only one-fifth as long. This is apparent when back in elementary school, summer vacations seemed to go on forever, yet today they seems to last a much shorter time. This phenomenon is proven mathematically. Life is half over at age ten, and three quarters over at age thirty. So imagine, if I were 1,000 years old, a 50 year marriage would have the equivalence of that someone I dated for a few months back in high school. Then imagine if I were a million years old. The very concept is astounding: people would erupt into and out of being around you. Cultural concepts would become meaningless, as you would see trends appear and disappear, only to go faster and faster as time went on. It is mind boggling, and I would love to experience it!
