If you had eternity at your disposal, and you could experience anything. If you knew that there was nothing - nothing at all - that could threaten your safety, not even death. How would you design your life?

This question is worth sitting with for a bit.

Because at the start, you would probably want wealth, comfortable houses, no worries at all. Every kind of luxury you could have. And it would be great, for a long time.

But eternity is a very long time. If comfort were infinite, it would dissolve into boredom. If certainty were guaranteed, you’d eventually reach for uncertainty. If safety were absolute, you’d invent the drama of risk just to feel the pulse of contrast. The whole texture of living depends on limits, even if the one experiencing them isn’t actually limited.

So eventually, you would want something else. Challenges. Difficulties. Hardship. Danger. Not real danger ofcourse, just the belief that it is real would be enough.

Kind of like how one day we are in the mood for a cozy Christmas movie, and the next we want to watch a thriller. And after that.. perhaps you would want to know what it is like to be an amoeba. Or an artificial intelligence. But imagine having to watch cozy Christmas movies forever. That would be a nightmare.

I do think this life is like that. A dream, which is the ultimate entertainment for the eternal being. Life is every kind of movie from romantic comedies to greek tragedies, action flicks to horror movies. All rolled into one.

Life does not imitate art, it is art that attempts to capture a tiny aspect of life.

Once you know that - really know it - you probably stop treating it as "so very serious". You play along, but there is a new lightness to your step.

That lightness would not be detachment. It’s more like remembering, for a moment, that the one who dreams is never actually in danger. Even when the dream feels very real.