Immortality Projects - Why Do We Fail?

In order to compensate for the inevitable loss of our physical self, we try to construct a conceptual self that will live forever. This is why people try so hard to put their names on buildings, on statues, on spines of books. It's why we feel compelled to spend so much time giving ourselves to others in the hopes that our influence will last way beyond our physical self. But when our immortality projects fail, when the meaning is lost, death terror creeps back into our mind. To truly not give a single fuck is to achieve a quasi-spiritual state of embracing the impermanence of one's own existence. In that state, one is far less likely to get caught up