revisit

Second posts are important as they re-affirm the commitment for the next one, not unlike what second life does- nine lives are the upper limit says my cat, already in its third life. why third? the cat has been mourned over twice by a over-afflicted cousin of mine, only to reappear again to every one's delight, turned out that the cat was merely taking the usual catty nap..
how many lives do we want to have till we say that's enough? not too bad a question for we. the believers in re-incarnations,some stories are special though. there is one about a great king in pre- mahabarata period who kept evading death for thousand years, each time sacrificing a son to extend his life by a hundred years, the older he grew, the stronger the pull of life became for him just as you want to win desperately the more you lose in a card game.
this lasted until he managed to ask his last son, just out of his teens why he didn't flinch when death was coming any moment.
His son could see the absurdity of life & of death, what interested him was if the king could escape the inevitable, live to die 100 years hence, could achieve anything that he could not in his 1000 years. if he could, we might have created some sense out of the farce we live in.
Life isn't a transferable asset, but what if it was. the young prince chose to take the offer, what would others do?
interesting experiments to explore, only that we have no multiple choice questions here and none of these is not a valid answer..