Vampires and their eternal future

Suppose for a moment that we have eternity. Of course, it is a conceptual eternity, not an objective one. A weakness, just one, like the sun or silver, is enough for death to exchange its optional facet for an unquestionable certainty.

Being immortal doesn’t matter much. Time will always defeat us.

Now, the future is an illusory heritage that only arouses interest when power is not exercised over it. Mortal man, marked by immediacy, by urgency, projects his gaze towards the future even when it is impossible for him to obtain a satisfactory answer.

From this tendency, the germ of all philosophies, mortal man interrupts his existence wondering about tomorrow. His thirst for the future even leads him to wonder about life in the afterlife, given that his journey through the hereafter has an expiration date.

Vampires, on the other hand, suffer from the opposite deficiency.

It takes a few centuries for eternity to become nonsense. The end, of course, inevitable, lies in wait for them like a distant shadow.

Maybe that’s why immortals care more about the past. Unable to glimpse the end point, hidden in an inconceivably remote tomorrow, they despise any guess about the future.

That philosophy, subscribed to by some lucid mortal thinkers, is essential for anyone who does not even know the estimated date of its annihilation. In short, if we do not know where we are going, it is very useful to understand where we come from.

See also:

http://dimidesan.com/what-it-feels-like-to-be-bitten-by-a-vampire/

http://dimidesan.com/bram-stokers-private-fantasies/