I agree it’s very jarring. Everything you know is going to stop and a ton of new things will be happening instead. I can see being upset over the things that ended (friendships and other joys) and it hurting to learn the new ways that life is just harder now.
That said, I note I don’t feel bothered by your example. In the current era of video calls and shared slacks and LW dialogues I don’t think I’d personally much mind being forced to move to New York and I might actually be excited to explore that place and its culture (acknowledging there will be a lot of friction costs as I adjust to a new environment).
Even without that, if I was basically going to live more than a trillion lifetimes, then being forced to move cities would just be a new adventure!
I have a possibly-related not-bothered attitude in that I am not especially bothered about the possibility of my own death, as long as civilization lives is to live on.[1] I am excited for many more stories to be lived out, whether I’m a character in them or not. This is part of why I am so against extinction.
I agree it’s very jarring. Everything you know is going to stop and a ton of new things will be happening instead. I can see being upset over the things that ended (friendships and other joys) and it hurting to learn the new ways that life is just harder now.
That said, I note I don’t feel bothered by your example. In the current era of video calls and shared slacks and LW dialogues I don’t think I’d personally much mind being forced to move to New York and I might actually be excited to explore that place and its culture (acknowledging there will be a lot of friction costs as I adjust to a new environment).
Even without that, if I was basically going to live more than a trillion lifetimes, then being forced to move cities would just be a new adventure!
I have a possibly-related not-bothered attitude in that I am not especially bothered about the possibility of my own death, as long as civilization lives is to live on.[1] I am excited for many more stories to be lived out, whether I’m a character in them or not. This is part of why I am so against extinction.
Not that I wouldn’t leap on the ability to solve aging and diseases.