Nov 4 2018

Is Long Life Good?

Everyone craves a long life. This is for sure. In ancient days, Kings like people to call him “ten thousand years” as his name. It is of course ridiculous, but the King liked its name.
Is long life good? It is good in principle. But it is good only that the person is healthy, able to take care of himself, by himself. If he lives a life on the help of other people, he cannot be happy. Imagine that he has to lie on bed day and night and to go out on wheelchair. How can he enjoy such kind of life every day up to the time of his death. It is natural that sometimes he will think to die is better.
A man of long life is a man of old. Old men, almost mostly, live helplessly. They want to live, but they have no life of quality. So, they are not happy, spending their days silently, watching the stars with a memory of past glory days. It is a reality they live now and they have to face it whether they like it or not.
To conclude, if you want your long life happily, you must be healthy. Without a good health to support, you shall never be happy even if you are wealthy. Therefore, enjoy the very moment when you are in days of energy. Missing the period, it will never come back.