i read once a short op piece, in which the writer criticised human beings for being too content with their choice of activities. people, he said, had evolved into beings who would rather watch a tennis match than to play a match; would rather watch movies than to live life as portrayed in the movies; have, in essence, become armchair spectators of history passing our eyes, than to be the ones creating it.

what's stopping us from doing what brad pitt (as achilles) said in 'Troy'?

"Immortality! Take it! It's yours!"