January 10th, 2023 – 1,567

~ Sam Shuttleworth

“Do you want to live forever?”

I’ll settle for making it to the weekend. But no, not unless literally everyone else got to as well and in perfect health, and even then there’s many good reasons I wouldn’t want that. I think maybe the most profound is even with perfect health, there is a sort of dilution that would come from ageless life, one that meant the me I am now would be long dead anyway in a thousand years time. I’d rather do some good here and there and maybe help leave a world better than the one I inherited, but even then that is quite a tall order, so leaving some nice stories behind may have to do.

Keeping this short as I need to bed, but I am hoping, fingers crossed, that I sleep well enough to manage work tomorrow. Two days in a row is already a lot, and three feels like I’m pushing it. Right now I don’t feel well enough to, but I’m hoping a good rest will ease me back from the brink. Hopefully. Can you hear the blaring optimism from this post?

Published by Sam Shuttleworth

I’m Sam, and I live to write. I spent most of the first 8 years of my adulthood trying to balance writing with a large amount of crap in my personal life, until towards the end of 2018 I threw everything out and started afresh with just my writing. I built the new me around one goal: I have to write at least 1,000 words a day. I called this goal 1K, and it changed my life. So long as I write a thousand words a day, the day is a success, and atop that I've managed over time to build the life I wanted all those years. My greatest flaws as a writer is I still use too many adjectives, adverbs, connectives as openers, accidental passive voice and I don't force my work down people's throats enough on pain of extreme and unusual torture. My greatest strength is I know my greatest flaws and I'm working on them.