“Treat women with respect.”
Bluto, Popeye* #quote
You should always do what's right, right? The opposite of right is
wrong, which you shouldn't do. Ergo you really should avoid going
left since obviously that isn't the right path in life. If you go the
left way, you're not going the right way so shame on you. Though go
thrice left in total and you can find redemption and be on the right
path again. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Immortality Privileges
Immortality granted me many, many privileges. I learned to game the
system and change my identity in the first few hundred years. Through
thousands, upon thousands of years I've been many, many different
people in all levels of society. So I've had all the privileges I've
wanted. If you want to give me a name call me Quinn. It's the one I
have right now. All the years to gather the information I need to
get what I want. All the time I need to learn what I want. A new
science pops up I've got the time to learn it. A few times I've
learned from the famous scientists and other thinkers in the history
books, and other times I've been them.
Eternal life gave me the ability to commit crimes as I see fit,
death doesn't bother me and I outlive whoever imprisons me. Whenever
I die I appear else where in a new adult body. I often do that
whenever my makeup can no longer make believable aging to those
around me or I don't want to change myself normally. I'll admit I've
done many bad things, and many people I've befriended and loved
passed before me. But overtime immortality gave me the privilege of
becoming immune to regret and missing people, like how someone gets
used to any kind of pain and become desensitized.
One privilege that immortality bestowed upon me that people should
be most envious of is a true belief in humanity. People may say they
have faith in humanity, but their feeling can only be drawn from
speculation. I've seen humanity keep improving slowly over time,
clawing it's way towards a better world. It stumbles backwards and
lurches forwards again, but overall, through the lifetime I've
experienced I have the privilege of knowing for a fact, from personal
experience, that there is progress.
The only difference in the matter becomes who's part of it.
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