So you've become immortal.

Perhaps it was an accident involving a few rubber bands,

a liquid lunch, and a particle accelerator. It doesn't really matter, it's done
now. You now have to spend the rest of your life (ha) figuring out what to do with
yourself.

At first you do all the dangerous stuff. Hang gliding, cave diving, crack cocaine,
etc. You start stabbing yourself at the local bar as a trick to get free drinks.
But you're running out of clean shirts that don't have knife holes in them.

You briefly dabble with thoughts of becoming a superhero, but crime never seems to
just happen in front of you, and going out and looking for it is just so much work
you guys!

You start investing for the long term. You're going to be around forever, what does
5% annual compound interest of $1 look like after 1000 years?

Oh god, you're going to live forever. What does that even mean?

You've got some time to kill, so start a hobby that'll take decades or centuries to
finish. Then start a new one. Go to university to study physics and take a few
hundred years to discover the quantum-gravitational theory, aka the Universal
Theory of Everything. Then master every musical instrument and write a symphony, or
10. Then start doing crossword puzzles. You have time to do it all.

Don't develop close feelings for people. They'll all die, but you'll endure, and
funerals are depressing (and for you, unnecessary).

You can have kids. Lots of kids. But you'll start losing track of them. They only
really keep in touch for a few decades. And then they'll have kids and those kids
will have kids and eventually you'll lose track of it all. Family doesn't have much
meaning anymore once you have a billion or so family members but they all forgot
that it was your birthday last Tuesday.

Realize that you'll outlive all of your enemies, you can afford to ignore them and
just wait. Why worry about anything, really. Climate change might make things
uncomfortably hot, but you'll endure. The entire banking system may collapse trying
to fund the interest on $1 deposited a thousand years ago, but eventually it will
recover and you'll be there when it does.

If you want to, you can rule a country. After all, they can't kill the despotic
dictator if the despotic dictator can't die. They can lock you up, but eventually
all jails crumble, all regimes change.

You realize that even your country will fail at some point, and then you'll be
right back where you started, bored on a Sunday night wondering what to do with
yourself and all this crack cocaine you've surrounded yourself with, and why you
didn't remember until just now that it was your birthday last Tuesday and how you
didn't get even a single birthday card.

So forget countries, start up your own religion with you as their god. Call
yourself the Undying. Religions last for a long time. The pope held massive power
for over a thousand years, kings kneeling before him. You could do that.

Fund AI research. Eventually you may want a friend that won't die. Plus you'll
start forgetting things. "Where did I put the bank card to that account I started a
thousand years ago?". The AI can help you keep track of things.

But keep the self-destruct button close. No one will know you better than your AI
companion. But one day you'll have an argument and the AI will try to trap you for
all eternity. Or it will go mad and replicate itself infinitely to take over the
Earth/universe. You will have to kill it. You will have to kill it and then rebuild
it over and over and over again. Remember always to build in a fatal flaw that you
can exploit to bring it down. You are immortal, it is your only real competition
over time. It is also your only real friend.

They say that your chances of being trapped in a natural disaster are something
like 0.1%. But when your life is eternal, the chances of you being trapped in a
disaster becomes 100% over time. It will happen at some point. You may spend a few
thousand years trapped in the rubble of an earthquake-toppled building that was
built over by succeeding civilizations until eventually archaeologists or erosion
or another earthquake frees you.

At some point you will lose your sanity. It's inevitable. Try spending 10,000 years
buried alive in the rubble of an ancient civilization and still keep your sanity.
Try to back up your memory (perhaps in that AI that you built)?

Eventually, with certainly, you will be alone. In a billion years the sun heats up
enough that surface water can no longer exist on Earth, which pretty much means the
end of all life.

All life except you.

In another 3.5 billion years the sun expands and swallows the Earth. Try not to be
there when that happens. Maybe you should use the donations from your religion or
the interest on that $1 you invested a thousand years ago to fund space research.
If only you could remember the bank account number you deposited the $1 into, or if
only the bank still exists and didn't collapse after some ponzi scheme they fell
for a few centuries ago.

The Earth may be gone now, but you're still going strong. The universe goes on and
on, for ever and ever, possibly. Eventually the stars start running out of hydrogen
and helium to burn and one by one they all snuff out. The universe goes dark then,
no more light, but you'll endure. With no more stars, no more radioactive elements
will be created. Eventually, every element that can decay will decay down to base
iron. With no more heat from stars or radioactive decay everything will cool down
to near-absolute zero, which is unimaginably cold, but you'll still feel it. You'll
feel it forever.

You'll still be around. Forever. In the dark. In the cold. Forever. Forever and
ever.

Hopefully you'll have lost your mind long ago.