Nadia's blog

I would not like to live 250 years because of too many changes that will occurre at that time. For the first and most significant most of the people that I love will pass away. Sometimes the death of our loved ones takes all the will to live and nothing is the same anymore. Secondly, during this time the world will evolve a lot. Discoveries, environment, technology - life will look completely different and it could be hard to get used to it. Eventually, I think that 80 years is more than enough to do everything you want from life and even get bored. Many people dream about being able to live much longer but for me this amount of changes will be too much to handle

People often think the past was better than today, because they tend to idealise the memories and like to compare it to the present or future. Firstly, we prefer to keep in mind only good memorises that put a filter on every difficulty we faced some time ago and give a false picture. That also creates an image of the ideal past, reflected even by a nostalgic idiom - "A blast from the past" referring to the good old days often better than the present. Secondly, most of us have some kind of a sentiment that sets us critically against the new experiences, because they do not match our imagination. In my opinion people focus too much on the past and this is the reason they might concern about the future.