Shekhar Natarajan

It felt like an early evening feeling.

They looked vibrant and youthful.

And right away they're like, happy 150.

And so for sure, my solar plexus got relaxed.

I was like, oh my God, that sounds amazing.

Like to be 150 and be young and

There's no death and decrepitude and illness and terror.

I have a lot of anxiety related to mortality.

I have since I was a teenager.

And I've been dreaming, dreaming about an intervention that can come in time, potentially, to save my parents.

My relationship with the transcendent as an artist still hasn't fully resolved my fear of mortality.

I mean, I think human beings are suspended in paradox.

But I don't know what comes after.

I'm pretty agnostic.

But what I do know is there's a lot of books that I want to read.

And certainly a single human lifespan is not enough.

I want to have many lives within my single life.

I want to live in many countries for two decades each.

You know, I want to learn Japanese and then I want to move to Europe and then I want to hang out in safaris in South Africa, but like for decades at a time.

And so from the beginning, I immediately felt soothed by their youthful longevity.