On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:48:49 -0500, Joshua Kronengold <mneme at io.com> wrote: > Howard Brazee writes: >> As it is we don't get the same joy of discovery as a 4 year old has. >> The older we get, the more jaded we would tend to become. > > FWIW, I've yet to become even the slightest bit jaded (in fact, I'd > say I have more joy of discovery than I had at 4, and am far less > vulnerable to getting "bored". > > I do not expect this trend to cease until I do. I've played with young grandchildren and haven't met an adult who obviously enjoys discovery as they do. You may be the exception. And I have seen old people who made claims similar to yours who have found it to be too much work - but they also have physical problems, which Sethra and the like don't have. > No idea what this has to do with Dragaera, except to point out that > different people have radically different points of view. At any rate - in a continent of long lived Dragaerans, longer lived undead, and even longer lived gods - we should expect not every being is delighted in doing the same old, same old. Even when their "jobs" are to do this. Sethra found some ways to keep interested despite an expressed interest in becoming a rock. We saw at least one god who decided to keep away from the rest of them - his isolation was caused by his reaction to an opportunity to gain more worshippers. I have no idea how long a healthy me would stay interested in the world. My WAG is maybe a thousand years. Certainly a hundred thousand years seems unlikely from what I have observed. And I haven't seen yet a representation of an eternal Heaven that appears attractive to me. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/