Book of Questions #17

[Kimberly]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Scott" <harry_potter00 at y...> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 17.  Would you be willing to become extremely ugly physically if it 
> meant you would live for a thousand years at any physical age you 
> chose?
> 
> **Auxiliary question :  How much are you affected by a person's 
> physical appearance?  How would it change your life if something 
> happened to make you much less attractive than you are now?  Do you 
> find anything disturbing about immortality?  What age seems ideal to 
> you?
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<

Thinky questions - fun!  
I think for the main question, the reward would have to be something 
different.  The idea of living 1000 years is exhausting to me.  I'm 
not particularly pretty to begin with, so I'm already accustomed to 
evaluating my worth on other criteria, so if it were a question of 
being ugly to gain immense wisdom, or a cure for a terrible disease, 
or insight into solving the world's problems (or, you know, a zillion 
dollars or something), I'd consider it, but I've no desire to live 
1000 years.

Affected by physical appearance - I'd like to think I don't make value 
judgements based on appearance, but presentation does make a 
difference, most simply a smile can change everything.

How would life change if one suddenly got uglier - Well, when you're 
in the middle (ie not frighteningly ugly, but not particularly pretty 
either) you're not all that noticeable.  Might be a 
conversation-starter to be shockingly ugly, mightn't it?  We could ask 
Mad-eye Moody.

Immortality - very disturbing.  I'm trying to think about any immortal 
types I've encountered in literature, film etc. and I can't think of 
any that are particularly happy.  The idea of immortality just makes 
me queasy.  I believe in God, and in an afterlife, but sometimes 
in my puny little human mind I find the idea of eternity in Heaven 
even to be tiring.  I guess if there are lots of volleyball games and 
cookouts and the occasional float trip it'll be nice, but they'll have 
to supply me with a nice hammock so I can rest up if we're going to be 
at it forever ;)

Ideal age - hmm.... I can't think along those lines.  I don't think 
the age makes that much difference.  I guess that's probably because 
I'm not old enough yet to encounter the aches and pains and health 
issues of ageing.  Then I might have a stronger opinion on that.

kimberly
who's a whole range of ages inside anyway.