longevity – 窄门守望者博客

What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?

The answer is the same as that to the question “What are the most important things needed to live a good life? 在地上活出美好生命最重要的事”. When you have someone to love, you will want to live long together with them. On the other hand, living long will not factor in a life with no one to love. That’s why a prolonged grief over the loss of an only loved one is always the most difficult emotion to overcome and some have taken a whole lifetime.

Please be consoled that all is still not lost if you are in that stage of life, having no one to love, or having lost your only loved one. In coping I look not at the vast empty canvas of the remains of my future decades or even centuries if man still lives that long.

I look daily with meditation at a new page of blank lines on my note book and fill it as I live for the day, with a starting sentence and a finishing sentence. Some days it’s just writing down the time and date. Some days the writing spills over to the next few pages. It does not matter how you fill it. What you write is the essential food to your soul. Write what you live.

You may ask, “does it work?”

With meditation and prayers, talking to God, reading His words, and hearing Him, I have improved in spirit, soul and body by the end of a year of grief. The presence of God in my life has restored the meaning of living.

What has this got to do with long life? Plenty. In fact, the whole. Living long is a heart matter. An attitude. When you are given the gift of longevity, do not waste it no matter how you feel. Ask yourself, why not?

Yes, we may be sad about the way events, people we love, and things turn out not what we have believed and expected in the first place, but it’s not yet the end of our world.

Having long life has a significant advantage because you can see how the future of mankind turns out. Of course you need a lion heart to sustain the shocks at man’s inventions and the increasing speed of changes and the adaptations future man needs to practice to survive.

For an individual who believes in an eternal life after death, time on earth is temporal. The years we use to measure the length of life really means nothing by the time we get to heaven.

Thoughts to ponder: But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 2 Peter 3:8

2025-01-18 Καὶnos

这问题的答案与“过上美好生活最重要的事情是什么？” 问题的答案相同。当你有爱的人时，你会想和他们长久地生活在一起。另一方面，长寿不会考虑没有人爱的生活。这就是为什么失去唯一爱人的长期悲痛总是最难克服的情感，有些人甚至需要一生的时间。

如果你正处于人生的那个阶段，没有人爱，或者失去了你唯一爱的人，请接受安慰一下，还没有失去一切。在应对时，我不会看着未来几十年甚至几个世纪（如果人类还活得那么久的话）留下的巨大空白画布。

我每天都会沉思地看着笔记本上新的一页空白行，并在一天中填写开始句和结束句。有时只是写下时间和日期。有时写作会延伸到接下来的几页。你如何填写它并不重要。你所写的东西是你灵魂的必需食粮。写下你所经历的一切。