Do you think we live long enough?

Question

Average lifespans are about 80 years, give or take, and we all know that unless you are proactive, the last 10 are usually slow going.

Do you feel like 80 years is enough time to really experience this life? To learn all that is learnable? To feel fulfilled? To become WISE?

I don't.

It seems to me that wisdom doesn't even start until after fifty. By the time you start to "get it" you're already losing it (ha ha!)

Answer 1

At being in my 60's I feel I am just starting to say, what do I want and where am I and seeing things for the first time.
I feel that life is way to short and my mother in law is in her 80's and she just expressed to me that she feels like a kid inside and that she would like to live her life over knowing what she does now.
I feel that humans were made to live forever we don't want to die if we feel good and have things to do.

Answer 2

In this system of things --considering current, ongoing world conditions-- 80 years seems way too long for many to have to endure! However, in the coming system of things --considering all the changed circumstances there--
8,000 years will be but a 'drop in the bucket' as far as how long I want to live'!

The Problem of Human Suffering--Why Does God Permit It?
- God's Permission of Suffering Nears Its End!
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2001/5/15/article_01.htm

Who Really Rules the World?
- A Clue From World Conditions
http://watchtower.org/library/t22/who_rules.htm

The Marvelous New World of God's Making
- Righteousness Replaces Wickedness
- Perfect health Restored
- The Dead Return in Perfect Health
- A Truly Peaceful World
- Earth Transformed Into a Paradise
- Undoing the Past Pain & Suffering
http://watchtower.org/library/dg/article_10.htm

“The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth”--How?
http://watchtower.org/e/20041001/article_02.htm

God's Kingdom will more than make up for ALL the suffering mankind has EVER had to endure!
http://watchtower.org/library/rq/article_06.htm

So...
How Long Can People LIVE?
- Do You Want to Live Forever?
- - Everlasting Life--Boring?
- - Life--Transient and Precious
- - What About Your Loved Ones?
- - Eternal Life--Why It Is A Joyful Prospect!
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2004/11/15/article_01.htm

Can You Avoid Aging?
- Why Do We Grow Old?
- How Long Can You Live?
http://watchtower.org/e/200605/article_01.htm

Will Aging & Death EVER End? :
- Our Quest for a Longer Life
- How Can the Quest for Longer Life Succeed?
http://watchtower.org/e/19991015/article_01.htm

It is interesting to note what the lifespan of mankind was, before the global flood ... 900+ years! And, they all died within 1 day, according to the way *God* views time!

Answer 3

Have you ever read the Lord of the Rings?
Consider the elves- the wise and immortal. If they are careful, they can possibly live forever. But even the oldest have not ammassed all there is to know.
And the longer you live, the more terrible things you see happen, and the sadder life can become. That's why my Grandma is so paranoid- the things you hear about and think they can't happen to you or someone you know, they happened to people she knew, and she hasn't forgotten.
I feel wise already, and I am young. While my wisdom is disputable, you have to die sometime, and living too long is almost as bad as not living long enough.
How old would be ideal to live, I don't know.

Answer 4

Deffinately not.

We have no idea how our activities influence the world around us--not in the long term. We do not suffer out actions (like global warming--who here really will know what it's like? We are polluting but we won't know the full impact--we will be dead, and the climatic change will be experienced by our children and grandchildren.)

We don't know what it was like to live on the frontier, we don't have enough time to understand all aspects of a situation, or how to learn from our mistakes. Genocide is always happening--from the Gauls and Celts to the Native Americans to the European Jews, Hutus, tutsis--we just don;t learn.

Answer 5

We live far too long nowadays - well beyond our design lifetime.

Modern medicine is now able to keep people alive until their organs actually wear out, or even break down because of natural processes that were never meant to keep running so long.

The result is that we tend to spend decades in a state that can only technically be called living: with failing senses, damaged joints and brains that become increasingly useless in practical terms. We acquire some wisdom, of course, but no-one wants to hear it and there are few places to apply it.

Eventually we are either cut down by diseases we were never meant to live long enough to have, or kill ourselves trying to do things - like driving - that we no longer have the capacity for.

'Logans Run' had the right idea.

CD

Answer 6

In the account of one hundred years of life. Although in this age a lifetime of one hundred years is generally not possible, even if one has one hundred years, the calculation is that fifty years are wasted in sleeping, twenty years in childhood and boyhood, and twenty years in invalidity. This leaves only a few more years, in working hard like donkey and in sense gratification like cats and dogs, and because of too much attachment to household life, those years are also spent with no purpose, without God consciousness.
Without Krishna consciousness, one wastes twenty years in childhood and boyhood and another twenty years in old age, when one cannot perform any material activities and is full of anxiety about what is to be done by his sons and grandsons and how one's estate should be protected. Half of these years are spent in sleep. Furthermore, one wastes another thirty years sleeping at night during the rest of his life. Thus seventy out of one hundred years are wasted by a person who does not know the aim of life and how to utilize this human form.

Answer 7

I have made some mistakes in my life and at the age of 41 I feel that I "get it" now. But to live much longer than 80...?

Answer 8

no its not enough time, but most of that is because of factors we control. We eat terrible, putting toxins in our bodies, we stay stressed and try to live too fast. I myself realized this around 2 years ago, and now i'm 26, and people call me crazy when I say I plan on living to 137 years old, but I mean it. It is a fact our bodies are able to live far beyond that, now I control my lifestyle and habits, and with future breakthroughs in health maintenence, I believe I will live well past 100. Take care of yourself before you need help from the doctors.

Answer 9

I think it's enough, but there are no guarantees. I think the american way of working your whole life to then spend your last years rotting away doing nothing is stupid, they are not the "golden years". I say integrate that retirement mentality through your whole life, plan so you can take a year off and travel. Don't wait for retirement because you don't know what life holds--don't defer living live until its too late.

Answer 10

It all depends on the body. I don't think it's enough for the mind which really never ages, but changes with experience. The body is on a different script, and it's no fun being in daily pain. 80-90 years is definitely enough for most bodies.