When given a choice to have the best life on earth or not be born at all, what will you choose?
This is a close one for me, but I think I’ll choose not to be born at all. You simply can’t deprive someone of something who is oblivious. On the other hand, once you are here on earth there is bound to be things that you can’t do and can’t have. You can’t break the law or you will go to jail, you can’t do whatever you want in a relationship or you will hurt the other person, and you definitely can’t walk through walls or teleport from one place to another. For the rest of your life you are limited and trapped in your own body. There is no freedom anymore.
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I thought provoking proposition. I would absolutely choose to have never been born. Such a pity we never had the option in the first place :'(
Who’s idea of ‘best life’ are we taking? If it were mine I would say definitely give me the best life but some sort of ‘God’ who gives us the choice I would choose not to be born.
I would choose life if I could stop feeling so sad and lonely.
I wouldn’t need something fancy or nice things. I would just want someone to walk with me through the woods holding my hand.
We’d come to a clearing, hear a soft tune in the air, and, bathed in starlight, we’d dance for the rest of our lives.
I’d smell the sweet scent of the blossoms of the trees as Spring passed, but it would never be as sweet as her.
Into the Summer, even with the heat all around us, I would hold her closer, for the warmth of her touch would be all that mattered.
Through the coming chill of Autumn around us and when the world starts to decay, no color would be more vibrant and lively as her. No rustle of leaves could drown out the words I hear her say softly to me as we dance.
Winter would come and all the frost that pales us would never make us cold, for we’d have each other and that would be all we’d ever need.
And then, as the song ends, we would stop dancing, pause to gaze in each other’s eyes one last time, and walk hand-in-hand back through the woods into the night.
That is the best life I can think of.