6 ways to make your life last for 1,000 years
Our physical bodies may only last for a hundred years, if we’re fortunate enough to have great health.
However, you can make your spirit, your mission, and your life last for a thousand years, perhaps more.
Here are 6 ways to do it.
1. Help people every day
Friends, family, and strangers. Help at least one person out every single day. You don’t always have to do a major act of kindness, even little acts can create big changes in lives and the world.
“Why would this make my life last for 1,000 years?” I’m sure you’re asking yourself this.
When you help people it creates a domino or ripple effect. The people you affected now help others, it’s similar to the pay it forward concept, but it’ll most likely be on a subconscious level and last for generations and generations.
Just a note: often people aren’t going to want your help. When this happens to you, just move on to the next person.
2. Share
This isn’t sharing in the kindergarten sense. This is about sharing your talents, your voice, your ideas, and sharing the real you. Draw, paint, write, take photographs, make music, talk; there are millions of ways to share.
If you’re talented in some sort of arts, you need to share that talent with others. You don’t have to be a rock star or celebrity, if you don’t want to. Many artists of the Renaissance weren’t famous during their time, but their art will never be forgotten.
3. Cryogenically freeze yourself
Who knows if it really works? Wouldn’t you have to be frozen alive for scientists in the future to revive you?
I rather make the best of the life I have now. Live it to the fullest, and hope that I don’t need to be revived in the future so that I can start over.
4. Concern yourself with the depth of your life
The cryogenics got me thinking. We are too concerned with how long our lives are and not how much we live while we’re here.
Be more concerned with how well you live, and your life will end up living on for a thousand years.
For more on living a deep life, please read my previous article here: Dive deep into life
5. Put yourself on the line
Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Paul, and ancient philosophers put their popularity, credibility, and lives on the line. That’s why we read about them in history books today.
If you want to be written into textbooks, then you need to take risks and stand up for something you passionately believe in.
6. Focus on what you do, not what you own
In a thousand years, your money and material possessions will crumble away into dust. What you do for others and for the world can never die. It’ll be passed on from person to person and mind to mind for all of time.
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This is a great post. Indeed if more and more of us were to follow these steps, the world would be a much safer, simpler and comforting place to live.
Thank you for this great post.
Hey Puleen,
Thanks for reading it! I’m glad you liked it. It would be utopia if everyone followed these steps
-Andrew