The Price of Time

by Tim Tigner

You and I will never know if The Fountain of Youth exists. There is one simple reason for this. Revealing such a grand discovery would be foolish—and no fool is going to find it.

With just one billion dollars in the bank, a person could spend a thousand an hour for a hundred years and still have a fortune left over.

“Some of us need to risk dying in order to feel like we’re living.”

If you think about it, friendships are almost always tied to common geography. If a person isn’t family, then when they move, the connections wither and die.”

“While most people enjoy a good hamburger, few want to pet the cow.”

“I don’t think we’re supposed to be happy. I mean the big us, humans. I think we’re supposed to struggle. I think that’s because there’s something more important to our psyche than hedonistic happiness.”

“Satisfaction. The satisfaction that comes from achievement. From having worked and produced and accomplished. Adults need it the way babies need milk. And like milk, satisfaction has a shelf life. People can feed off past accomplishments for a couple of weeks, but their mood starts to sour after that.

“I have developed the theory that adults wean themselves off the need to achieve as they move beyond middle age. By the time they’re seniors, they can sustain a positive attitude off the energy of past accomplishments. But as Immortals, we’re stuck with the achievement appetite of youth.” David completed

She’s too ashamed to return to Nebraska, which she’d been wanting to escape forever anyway.

The National Security Agency keeps records of cached web pages, kind of like computer backups for the internet. Rumor is they’ve subcontracted this to Google, but I don’t know if that’s true.

Bleeding inside the skull. I couldn’t look for that, but I knew how to test for brain function. I pinched her earlobe.