[ WP ] Tropeday 2.5 - Who Wants to Live Forever ?

It all started so fun, but it became rotten so soon... It started with that damn Gypsy. 
 
 I had just gotten off my job, which barely pays anything I might add. A woman almost got run over by a bus. I pulled her out of the way, and we both were saved. She started sputtering some stupid stuff about `` immortality'' and `` living forever''. I ignored it. 
 
 It was a slow realization, unlike the people who you see get shot in the movies. It kind of started about 10 years later. All my friends were losing hair, and looking a bit wrinkly, but I was exactly the same. After another 10 years I figured it out. It was n't a shock, I had enough time to gradually adjust to the possibility, that I was indeed immortal. 
 
 Then was the fun part. I became one of the best stock brokers on the market. I could see companies rise and fall over their lifetimes, so I understood them like no one else. I made a lot of money. But eventually, I realized things were n't the answer. 
 
 I then sought out love. Jenna, my first wife, married me when I was 20. Eventually she got suspicious if my abilities and threatened to call the police. I fled that night. 
 
 I moved to Japan, and took on a lifestyle of meditation. There, I found the problem with immortality. 
 
 For most people, death is the impetus to do things. Then they do as many of those things as they can, and die. An immortal person does those things, and is bored. But life slogs on. And time goes faster and faster for you in your head, but it has no limit of death on top. 
 
 The year is 12000 AD. Humanity exists in small pockets, but I'm mostly alone. I've been told a meteorite will hit the earth soon, and wipe out all life. Except me.
