Margaret AtwoodIf you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.
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If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time. You may want to jump off the roof and stop aging if you want to stay the same age. The idea is that you would be alive forever and never die. However, when we think about this we can see how foolish it is.
Think of all the things we might miss in our lives and how much we would miss our loved ones. If we really wanted to stop aging we would have no choice but to just accept that we would be growing old and at some point die, so stop trying to avoid it.
Source: The Year Of The Flood
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