"Even a long human life adds up to only about 650,000 hours. And when that modest milestone flashes past, or at some other point thereabouts, for reasons unknown your atoms will shut you down, silently disassemble, and go off to be other things. And that's it for you." In this quote Bill Bryson is presenting the fact that even the longest life is ungraspingly short in the timespan of the universe. And then you're done.
This really makes me think. And Bryson isn't the first person to bring up this point, or say this, and every single time I hear it it makes me think. It makes me realize that life is a short deal, and that you really need to live every moment in it the best you can. You need to take risks and chances to try to excite your life, but not enough to make it any shorter than it already is. Every time I hear this I always try to excite my life, and do things I normally wouldn't. However Bryson puts a certain twist on this semi-famous saying, one I have yet to hear in my short life.
Bryson compares the short life that human beings have to the atoms that create our body, and to the universe itself. He declares that your life isn't just short, and you don't just die, the atoms in your body simply disassemble. And like previously stated, that is it for you. This brings up the question for me: What is our actual reason to be here on earth? We were brought here, and given such short lives, there must be a fairly simple reason we are here. And why hast anybody figured it out yet?
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