Tears in Rain (Are we all replicants?)

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die."

This famous monologue in the end scene of the movie Blade Runner shows "replicant" Roy Batty complaining that all his life experiences will amount to nothing after his death.

And this stems from the fact he, as replicant, knows he was manufactured and, hence, he will not be able to carry on any of the memories, experiences, wisdom, wealth, or whatever he won with so much effort during his 4 year lifespan he complains about and tries to pointlessly find ways to increase throughout the entire movie.

Now, I see so many videos showing how to live a great, fulfilling, happy, wealthy, content, giving, amazing, revolutionary, blabla LIFE that at the end they just bring a simple question: how about a video showing all those great things, but for DEATH?

But we don't see them as we do not want to be reminded that, despite all the great lives we may have lived, the end result is the same of Roy Batty's: a huge waste of resources. It is like when you get a lot of perks, powers, etc in a videogame and lose them all when your character is killed. And at least in a videogame you have the chance of being reborn! But we do not consider that either for our lives.

But, in all honesty, why? Why can't we truly think there is something beyond our lives? Something that will use the experiences we gained in a productive and fulfilling way? "Ah, you mean a soul", you say. Sure, if that's what you want to call it. Either way, if you think you have nothing inside your body that will take those life lessons into whatever comes after (could be either another life as a videogame), I am sorry to hear that: it must be sad to feel empty and to have to face that a whole lifetime meant nothing.

But those videos teach us to think big, and yet they teach you how to live well at the most 120 years when you could "live" much, much more than that! So, how is that thinking "big"? And they also teach you to be "courageous", to "take chances", to "reach the top". So how is fearing death being "courageous"?

I choose to think I have some "stuff" inside me that will take whatever I learned in my life (hopefully, a lot!) and take it to some "place" where all that stuff will be put to good use. And I choose to ignore videos, lessons, etc that teach me how to live a great "LIFE" when I know that, regardless of any efforts on my part, I will live at the most 120 years, so I prefer to focus on my "DEATH".

And by doing that I automatically live a great life so I can take as many wonderful experiences to whatever follows. In fact, I have now two reasons to live a great life: to actually live it, and to take it with me wherever I go next.

And that is thinking "big" and "courageous"