What I'm Listening To: Forever Young- Jay-Z
Made tamales this weekend for my aunt and they were HUGE. The unfortunate part is that I only made 24 and they were gone super quickly, so I'm going to make more next weekend because this weekend is my birthday weekend. Today is Memorial Day and tomorrow is my first day at my internship. I'm excited to be in bizcas (business/casual) for the rest of the summer and learn some awesome stuff. I started writing again (YES) and didn't realize how much of the new book that I actually wrote during the school year. Today I'm going to try and write the whole sixth chapter as well as continue my Buffy/Angel marathon (two words: David Boreanaz). I'm beyond happy that David Boreanaz got Angel as his show after he left Buffy and that it's really interesting to watch the shows as I'm doing now, alternating episodes of both, because sometimes they intersect and characters from one show go onto the other show. It's fascinating.
I had a post about paranormal romances and since my new book is going to be a paranormal romance between a faerie and an elf, I decided to divulge my thoughts on immortality (I'm practically on the fifth season of Buffy and something that the almost indestructible demanoid said struck me as profound). Why are people infatuated with the concept of immortality? Do you really want to live forever and what would be the consequences of that choice?
Immortality is a paradox. When a being knows that they can live forever, it makes them that much more frightened of the possibility of death, even more so than mortals. Instead of being unstoppable or beyond death, their enemy has no shape or form; it is fear. Immortality is a fragile thing once achieved because its permanence is unknown. The possibility of death becomes a nightmare as well as a dream; for those who cling to life too much and wish to be forever young or those who seek escape into the black abyss of death. Immortal creatures become afraid of life because in essence, they do not live. to live is to eventually die, and in that sense dying is a part of living. We are born knowing the limit of our mortality and that eventually we will be no more. It's almost our purpose to die so that new life can come and the circle of life can go on. It's like an actor who stays on stage too long because they want more of the limelight. Immortals are afraid of mortality because in essence, they do not live, cannot live because they do not experience life with the freshness that mortals do and it becomes stale and monotonous.
