How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?"" That depends."" On what?"" On how I want to feel.

Greg Egan
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The quote, “How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?” is the answer to the question that I asked at the beginning of this post. It answers that question in a clever way by using another question. He is asking how it feels to be seven thousand years old, and he wants to know how you want to feel. The idea of aging is an interesting one because it can make us think about what our present self will become in the future because time is constantly moving forward. It makes us think about how we are aging because we are constantly moving forward.

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