New Year's

[historiology]

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Sender ID: historiology (Sorey)
To: Public
Subject: New Year
Warnings: no warnings.

It's a new year. I guess this does make me wonder. Depending on how long we are here. What this means for birthdays. If I'm here long enough and have a birthday here does that count still or? Cause I'm not sure how that might work here. Being somewhere else and all. Plus, if I had my birthday and Mikleo didn't back home that'd be weird. Being older than him like that, We've always been the same age, both seventeen at the moment. I mean I know seraphim live way longer than humans but still.

And this is when people sometimes have goals or wishes for the year right? Stuff they want to do? I haven't really thought of anything for mine besides seeing new places, exploring this place. Learning more about this place, sailing and helping people.

Comments

[historiology]

Even that is longer than we would have otherwise. So I guess that still beats being very lucky to be maybe like a hundred. I just figure that is something. Something more. I'm not sure on if there's something like that back home. That I could do for more time with Mikleo.

[yuezun]

This venerable one confesses, the short lives of mortals confuses him. An immortal child, one who is born to an immortal race, is only just leaving behind the need for diapers at fifty. At a hundred they are still too short to reach their mother's knees, though they are quite able to run circles around their skirts.

[historiology]

I guess the different aging would make sense, if one had longer lifespans. Aging slower. Mikleo's the same age as me and we're both the same. I mean, he's shorter but even in humans height can differ even if someone is the same age.

[yuezun]

This venerable one only spoke of size so you could understand that they are still children at an age most mortals cannot live to reach. Those that cultivate to immortality age as they would normally until they reach the point of cultivation that they can stop or slow the aging process.

[historiology]

I got that. I guess it isn't so strange to me given how long some seraphim can live. It's just. That long to be that small is all. That's the part that is new to me, I guess. Mikleo seems to still be aging the same as me at least so far. But I guess that makes sense that the sooner humans would figure this immortality the better for their aging.

[yuezun]

Have you ever watched a tree grow from a seed to a towering hulk? They age faster than an immortal, but slower than a mortal. Mortals see only their own kind and others like them as worth noticing, but every plant and stone has as much opportunity as a mortal to grow their wisdom. Given their lifespan, they may have even more opportunities.

[historiology]

I think most all the trees were probably already around Elysia or at least as far as I remember. But that is a good point. They have their lifespans too. The same with animals, some of them live longer than others.