Daily Dose of English 210
Living Forever
Daily Dose of English 210
Intermediate
Hey everyone, my name is Ben and you're listening to a Daily Dose of English. This is a short, simple podcast that you can listen to every day to improve your English. You can find the transcripts for all episodes and more on benslanguagelab.com. I'm glad you could make it today. In this episode, we're going to be talking about living forever. And really quick, before we get into that, I want to quickly talk about what do I mean by and more on benslanguagelab.com. Because I say that every single day on every single episode, but what is more on there and what am I trying to do with Ben's Language Lab? So, I'm not exactly sure what my goal is. I've talked about this before. But I do other things on the blog, or actually on the YouTube channel as well, but I have all the transcripts there on the blog. And that's mostly what I have. So if you go to benslanguagelab.com slash blog, you can actually see all of the episodes of anything I've ever posted, going back all the way to March 31st of 2023. No, 2024, 2024. And so that's a really good source of transcripts or written content if you want that for your English learning. And I've done a bunch of different series at this point. Of course, I have my Daily News of English, which happens every single day. But then I also read some comics, which are great sort of intermediate, also even for relatively beginner, because there's images and I talk about and I explain pretty much everything that's happening in those. And then I also have a, I started doing an image talk series. That was pretty fun. I stopped doing it because it got kind of hard to do. It was a lot of mental energy, I felt like. The comic reading, I also stopped after three series. But there are, each series lasts like 16 episodes, so there's like 50 episodes of the comics. Image talk, which was just talking about various AI-generated images for 10 minutes or so. was a cool series but I only made it through 12 before it was just getting to be pretty difficult to keep watching it to keep doing it was just Yeah, weirdly tiring. I don't know exactly why it was so tiring, but it was fun. It was a fun series, and I recommend going to check out those images if you're curious. I also did a series, after the image talk, I switched to doing How English Works, which is, I only did, what, like five, six, how many episodes did I do? Oh, I made it to several. I got it to what looks like 10, yeah, to 10 episodes of How English Works, which is what I was really looking for in my Czech learning, which is basically somebody explaining in the language, in English, various aspects of the language that maybe aren't super clear or that I wanted to learn or something like that. And so I started doing that myself. I started by explaining concepts in English that, without using big phrases or big grammar words or whatever, trying to make it clearer on what we do in the language, which makes it kind of interesting or weird or whatever. I kind of ran out of ideas on how to keep doing that, but I think it could be a very useful series if anybody else, yeah, I don't know, I like that series, I thought it was cool. And now I'm doing a series of, instead of the comics, I'm playing some video games or playing a video game called Papers, Please. We're already 10 episodes that have been out so far as I'm recording this, but there are several more and I'm actually going to record another one right now after this. I don't know how much longer it's going to last. It's not a long game, but it's not short either. I've already recorded 11 episodes. Today's going to be 12. And 12, they're about 20 minutes each. So three is one hour, which means that it's over four hours of gameplay so far. But yeah. And I'm also doing a English from Zero, so like a very beginner input series, which is, I'm not thrilled with it. It's, again, it's another really difficult series to record. It takes a lot of energy from me for some reason. and I struggle to find topics that I wanna do, but I think it's very useful. So I'm trying to get better at that, but actually it's easier to make in content for intermediates or advanced learners and making stuff for like really new learners is really hard. And so that's something that I'm trying to hopefully improve on. But yeah, that's the and more that's on the website. So check it out if any of those sound interesting to you, any of those sound helpful. Now, we're already halfway into this episode, but I quickly want to talk about the real topic for today, which is living forever, which is something I was thinking about recently because I definitely don't want to live forever. If somebody gave me the option to live until I was a million years old, I was that old, I would say no. That sounds not fun. And I think there's often this people think about wanting to live as long as possible or live forever or extend their life or whatever it is. My parents even have really are interested in like people who live a long time or and doing things that will help them to live into their 90s or whatever, like very old. And I don't necessarily want to even become that old, because I've seen, unless my body is very healthy, sure, that's fine, but I've seen a lot of old people who are just non-functional at very old ages, and I don't feel like I want to be non-functional. I don't want to be a person that like barely can move and can't do anything and is still technically alive, but not really. And so there's not, we don't really have a choice because you can't just like choose to die usually unless you're in a lot of pain or something like that. But I feel like being a complete useless person is not a very good way to live. and so and like and your body does start to deteriorate at a certain point but that's not even what I'm necessarily talking about because if you're if you are actually given the option to live forever like you're not going to get sick you're not going to whatever you can just live forever as you are now I would also not want that because Either if you get really bored with life because there's only a certain number of things that you want to do and you would and it's not like that you want to relive things over and over again necessarily where that's the Groundhog Day thing. If you've ever seen Groundhog Day or Palm Springs, they're both time loop movies. There's lots of time loop movies as well, where basically people or books or whatever, where you can't escape a day, you have to relive a day, but you know that you already relived it in all your past experiences. Like, that sounds terrible. That sounds so awful. And actually, in the movie Palm Springs, the character who's stuck in the time loop becomes a raging alcoholic. He drinks all day, every single day, because he's been there for presumably a very, very long time. And it, why would he not, uh, like, what else does he have to do? He's sort of given up on life because at a certain point you can't do anything else. You don't want to do anything else. You just kind of want to stop existing, um, or whatever it is. A good movie. Groundhog Day I think is better, but they're both good. And I think that's one of the reasons why I wouldn't want to live forever, even if like everybody else also lived forever. And then especially if I was the only one that could live forever and everybody else was normal, that just means that every lifetime you would have to make a completely new set of friends and family, and that would just be so... Awful to like just see your everybody die That you know every single lifetime would just be really really Heavy on you. It would be very difficult to keep To have that happen I so often I guess especially since I'm at a certain point like What is a year if it's basically equivalent to one second of your life, right? That would just be so I feel like it'd be terrible for your mental health and your well-being and everything. It would just be awful. So I would much rather live a regular life and connect with the people in my life and make good connections, have a good circle of humans around me and be happy. then have it pass because I am just a small part of the of this thing that we call humanity and I want to just exist in my little area and do the best that I can leave it as as at least as good as I found it which I hopefully can do but you know the world is not in a great spot right now so yeah. Anyways, on that, if you are having a tough time or you aren't in a great spot because of the world not being in a great spot, I hope that you're doing okay. I hope that you're, um, at least a little bit happy or something or whatever, or enjoying this podcast at the very least, but that's going to be everything from me today. I hope that you enjoyed listening and maybe learn a little something or listen to me ramble about my own other projects, but yeah. That's all I got for today. I'll see you tomorrow. Have a good one. Bye.
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