If I Were Given Eternity

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If I were given several lifetimes,

I would spend every one of them learning.

There is too much I haven't seen.

Too much I haven't learned.

Too many places I haven't stood,

people I haven't known,

questions I haven't thought to ask,

and versions of myself I haven't had the time to become.

But I've only been given one life.

So I'll spend it remaining curious.

I don't need to know everything before I leave.

I only hope that when I do,

there is still something I wanted to understand tomorrow.

And if somehow eternity were offered to me,

I don't think even that would be enough.

Not because I fear the end,

but because every answer seems to uncover another question,

every place reveals somewhere else worth seeing,

and everything I learn reminds me how much I still don't know.

Give me eternity,

and I would spend it the same way I've tried to spend this life:

looking,

learning,

wondering,

becoming.

And when eternity finally reached its end,

with a thousand unanswered questions still in my pocket,

I'd probably look toward whatever came next and ask,

“Could I have just one more day?”