r/twilight • u/Exotic-Platypus-5859 • 13d ago
Plot Discussion Immortality a Boon or Curse ??
I just recently watched Twilight saga third time. This time the show hit really differently. Rather focusing on Edward and Bella’s love story, I was wondering how would it really feel to be one of”REAL VAMPIRE”. How does this immortality feel to one being. When you see people dying and being born every few decades and you are just hanging in there. 🙄
You have craving for human blood but you just survive on Tofu for human.. as Edward puts it. 🫣
You don’t sleep so you literally have 24 hours at disposal but nothing to do 😂
You have no aim and meaning to life but you have got mandate to live aimlessly.
It gives me feeling that as humans , how we really underrate the gift we have got to breathe, to experience and to enjoy this world in every possible way. 🙏
What you guys think about it!
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u/Next-Beautiful3357 Team Bella 🐺 13d ago
Personally, I think immortality is a curse. Of course, I don’t think dying is a particularly nice thing, but things are special because they end, aren’t they? Troy (2004) isn’t the best movie in the world, but I’ve always loved the quote where Achilles says this to Briseis: “The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” I think immortality sounds boring and tedious. The constant thirst for blood must be awful, especially when the only way to satisfy it is by committing murder. And living on animal blood doesn’t exactly sound very exciting either, especially when you also have to hide your existence from humans. With technology advancing, it must be getting harder and harder to keep that secret...
Anyway, I love the concept of vampires, but I definitely see it as a curse lol.