Serious Which fate is worse?

[Tyler Breeze]

I'd want to be the last person alive on earth. Sure, it'll get lonely without humans around, but that's what we have animals for! Hopefully there would still be dogs and cats and all those other animals we take in as family. So while you wouldn't be able to actually have a conversation with them, you'd still have a loyal friend by your side.

 

[Evee]

I'd choose the first option simply because it is like experience a new life. Of course, it could be a bit sad at first, but then you should meet the same people again and restart your life with them. If not, for sure you'll meet other people and you won't be alone. I think being alone would be terrible because you wouldn't have nothing to live for and nobody to love.

 

[Shu]

Heavy topic, right? Well I think I missed this one in my days at FFF. I think I'll give her a shot.

Option # 1:

Being forgotten completely and utterly by everyone you care about and who cares about you.

I do not want to live past my 50s. I feel I must say this, because seriously, I feel I will look to the newer generations and not find the hope I truly wished upon them. When I was 18 I felt 40. When I was 22 I felt 60. When I was 29 (this last week) I felt I lived a life time. "Oh shu, you are dramatic." I'm serious. I watch every day, analyze every day, and try to find ways to force positive change to societal roles. I grew up being a lively little one. I grew into a hipster when I hit high school thanks to my influences. Thinking that my music was better than everyone elses, and I listened to it first. I paraphrased quotes from lyrics and so on.

I have seen some stuff since then that made me grow beyond my age though. I refused to relate to people as I once did, because it didn't feel right. So I took to the introverted role. Being remembered has never been my forte.

I love new experiences, I love meeting new people again and again and growing threw their experiences. I most recently met a young lady at work. She had traveled to Germany and stayed there and was from the Netherlands. She just now came back to Oxford, and her and I have a lot of similar views in the way that we see the world. I strive to hear about other places, other people, and definitely other cultures. My best friends at work are Russian, Nepalize, Hindi, Argentinean and now Brazilian.

My best experiences are those I meet the first day and kick off a new conversation about something totally real. So do I want to be remembered?

I don't care. Call it selfish. But.. it's not me who I am interested in, it's others. I take with me a thousand life times. I live through other people and through my own experience. I grow only with wisdom, not with intellect. Intellect only helps for social conversations and making sure history doesn't repeat itself. (and of course sciences and math).

I can only hope one day all media is reformed and is made honest. That is my only legacy I wish to impart to newer generations.

 

[Mr. Zombie]

What you're asking is basically this:

A) Feel alone because no one cares about you.
B) Feel alone because there's no one around.

Short answer: Be the last human.

Long answer: For a long time I thought I knew what it meant to be alone, because I've always been a loner with no friend or social life (and still am), but the truth is, I never had the desire to be with someone. To feel alone, you need to be longing to be with at least someone, and that pretty much happened at some point of my life, so I have to say that to be really alone you've to desire someone and be unable to have this one person, be it because that person doesn't care about you anymore... or because this person simply can't be with you.

In the end the feeling is the same, though the reasons are different, and based on the reason I'll always prefer to be alone by circumstance than by choice.

 

[Do7]

Essentially the two kinda go hand in hand. I mean for example let's say if you were the only person left on the planet. Who would be there to remember you? Sure you wouldn't be forgotten in a sense, but is life truly worth living without anyone else to share it with? Then again if you are forgotten then that brings a question if you lived a life worth living. This is a dicey subject but I suppose if I had to choose it would to be forgotten. Eventually everyone will to a certain extent.

 

[Captain Squee]

Hah...2007 thread...Ok, I'll bite.

To be forgotten, definitely. My goal in life is to simply live. I want to be a simple person, I don't want to be known for the things I did. Instead, I want to be known for the kids I raised and the impact that they could have on the future. To bring hope to the future, my generation is doomed to fail. Instead the duty falls on my childrens shoulders, so all I want is to be an impact on them, even if they forget. If there is an afterlife and I do sit there while my children are making a difference and I'm never mentioned, never alluded to, never even thought about, as long as they live positive, I accomplished all I ever wanted in life. After all, in time, everyone gets forgotten into the dust of history. I by no means believe that my life will, or even should be more or less important than my fellow man. That's just my way of thinking.

 

[Riku]

The first option. Because at least if all of your friends and loved ones forget about you, they are still alive and safe and possibly happy. You could try and reconnect with them by making new memories, or make new friends all together. Not gonna lie it'd be hard to cope with... but at least you and humanity would still be alive.