A Thousand Year

 "Aih bro? You already have a lot of project ongoing, still looking for new project? Don't be too greedy la" Those are the words that have been mentioned by a friend of mine at Labuan while i was working out for few tender. He was visiting me at the house but due to i'm on my work, didn't really talk to him at that time. "Didn't i told you that we gonna live for a thousand years? So need to work like you are living for a thousand years la kan?" casually replied to him at that time.

Since then, i always use the sentence of living for a thousand years. A lot of time. A few year after that, it hits me, what if those words that i used, to live for a thousand years, become true, become a curse to me? Seems fun. But surely there are fallback to live longer than average human lifespan.

I searched for a meaning of living long life, I read about people who lived more than a hundred years. But seems like there are no record of human living more than hundred plus year. Put aside the lore in the age of gods, the time of Gilgamesh and the era of prophets, in properly recorded human history, it's just around the age of typical human lifespan.

I cross upon a discussion in the internet. What would happen if you live for a thousand year. But this discussion is subjected to assumption that the span of of thousand year your aging is similar to typical human with 60 years of lifespan. That means, you stop aging around 30 years old and the balance 970years is just like the aging from 30-60 years.

It's a nice discussion. Earlier age you will feel dejected by the facts that all people that you may know in your era is dead. Nobody from your era is there anymore. Family, friends, lover, all died in their respective lifespan. Only you.

The next era is kinda interesting where you start to travel the world, making a lot of money with your long lasting experience and move on to the world of technological marvel where interspace travel may occur that time.

I've heard a song by Ace Of Base with title "Happy Nation" where it mentioned that a human don't live too long but the idea may last. A few name in history such as Gilgamesh, Alexander The Great, Jesus, Prophet Muhammad, Napoleon Bonaparte, Algebra, Ibnu Sina and many others where it seems that people nowadays still know their name even thought it is long way past their time, past their lifetime. I understand that while human won't be alive for a thousand year, but their achievement may last in the history.

The next question that pop in my mind is, how to achieve something great like the name mentioned in history? As mentioned in one of a book that I read, human will make some projection to make their name will last in history. Maybe it's a building, art, teaching or maybe a country itself. 

I'm nobody, maybe I have a good career now day but didn't seems like I can etch my name in the history. My achievement, I see nothing. My teaching? Maybe people remember me as an arrogant person with high egoistic. That I don't know. And it may lasted up to few generation only, not till a thousand year.