The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.
As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.
'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.
The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Life is essentially a question of values.
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