invincible

i wonder, if that which makes us invincible is not related to health...

... or wisdom...

... or wealth...

... or beauty...

... but arrogance, and selfishness, and inconsideration, and callousness. then would it not be simple to live in each moment, and extend that moment to an infinity, because as soon as the next comes along, we will have lived all there is to live of that prior moment? and therefore, the sum of all these moments is a definition of forever, that makes us invincible.

but this is an oversimplification, one that many choose to live with, where there is a more elegant (if somewhat more effort-laden) way of invincibility - that which requires the fondness of another, and of one's own.

but life is too short to seek eternal in the most sophisticated ways! so let us rejoice that immortality is just another construct. much like kinship or love or inner peace or competence.