connor-obain.livejournal.com... is that everyone else dies. Friends, wives, family, heh even pets sooner or later they all die. At first I would be devastated as person after person got ravaged by age and I remained in my prime. Even those who I wasn’t directly in contact with, just faces around town, people who I had watched grow up, fall in love, live their life, having children of their own, never really knowing them but charting their history after a while I would notice they aren’t around and come to the realisation that they too had gone. This saddened me.
For a while I decided to roam the planet, never staying in one place long enough to make any ties to people in the hopes of being spared the pain. I set foot in every country, every continent, seeing everything this world had to show, from Egypt to the polar caps. Walking when I could, it’s not like I don’t have all the time in the world, and using whatever means of transport when I couldn’t walk. I slept out doors, in Africa I slept beside lions, having no fear of injury, hearing their breathing, listening to their mighty heartbeat. I enjoyed delicacies from every walk in life, I did not need nourishment but they tasted exquisite anyway. I travelled around this planet many times, to many to count possibly but soon as buildings crumbled, villages emptied, monuments fell, the sadness returned but this time there was no one to share my grief with.
So I chose to try again to reintegrate myself, to have friends again, to enjoy the company. I thought it will be better this time, I know what to expect and braced myself for when the inevitable came thinking to myself it cant be any worse than any of the others.
I was wrong, with each loss I would miss something different about them, their laugh, their smile, they way they did certain things, each person blessed with a golden attribute and that attribute gone into the void never to be witness by me again.
I have had many conversations, with many great-minded people, overheard their dreams and wishes. And lost count of the amount of times I have heard “I wish I could live forever.” And on these occasions I wish I could tell them, impart just a little insight into the truth of being immortal, to unburden myself of just some of what I know.
So I guess you could say that’s the trouble, the curse of being immortal, that even surrounded by people, I will forever be……alone.