>you will never be a Spanish princess
>you will never be married away to a rival count to serve as a deterrent against war
>you will never get kidnapped by moors and convert to Islam, only to flip back to Catholicism when your brothers and cousins storm the city and put all Muslims to the sword
>you will never call accuse a converso sephardic merchant of being a crypto-jew in order to confiscate his money
>You will never be the Grand Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
>you will never fuck a different wife or concubine every day of the year
>you will never laugh as your grand vizier burns another letter from the Pope begging you to convert to Catholicism
>you will never order your head gardener to be killed for eating your favorite cucumber, then re-grow it from the seeds cut out from his belly
>you will never enslave entire villages of Greek peasants
Why live?
>You will never be a Roman centurion
>You will never put Gaulic barbarians to the sword
>You will never get to bang the hot wife of the barbarian you just killed
>You will never take part in a civil war for your general to make Rome great again
>You will never get a comfy piece of land as rewards for your service to the Republic
Why even live?
>you will never take Jerusalem from the Ottomans with opium cigarettes
>you will never push the Gerries back during the Hundred Days Offensive
>you will never witness the Huns ragequitting and destroying their own fleet at Scapa Flow
>>1297423
>you will never be a mongol horse-archer
>you will never laugh maniacally as you chase down Chinese rice farmers as the hordes close in on the Emperor's palace
>you will never charge through the gates of Bagdhad, and gorge yourself on succulent middle-eastern desserts, then wipe your mouth with an irreplaceable treatise on mathematics
>you will never brave the snowy plains of Russia, inflicting such barbarism on the Russian people that they suffer collective trauma so terrible that Russian people remain subservient, depressive slaves well into modern times
>you will never shoot arrows at Hungarian knights while riding your horse backwards as they try in vain to chase after you
>you will never murder a Persian merchant and then brutally rape his wife while her children look on helplessly
Just let me die in my sleep already.
>>1297448
>you will never be a French-Canadian fur trader
>you will never track down a moose, shoot him, and then bring the meat back to your native wife so she can cook the meat
>you will never teach your mixed son how to hunt and watch proudly as he grows into a virile, catholic frontiersman
>you will never paddle your canoe down a placid, clear river to get to town and make a small fortune selling beaver pelts to be made into stylish hats
>you will never know the joy of fashioning a simple, elegant trap to snare a beautiful wild deer
>>1297448
>2016
>didn't buy a ticket to central asia
>didn't buy a herd of horses
>didn't become a neckbearded horse-archer
What are we waiting for, /his/?
We live in the pinnacle of human existence and still we decide to waste our time instead of following our dreams to becoming horse archers.
We are better than this.
>you will never be God-Emperor of the Inca Empire
>you will never smugly tent your fingers as Cihmu noblemen pay tribute to you after you ride into their ancient city, borne on your throne by four of your strongest servants
>you will never sit down to a fine feast of sautéed guinea pig, with a medly of multicolored potatoes, fruits from the Amazon, and fish from the Pacific coast
>you will never preside over a sacrifice of twelve of the finest Quechua maidens to ring in the yearly harvest festival
>you will never lead an army against the rival Chanka kingdom and capture their king's sacred mummy, causing their entire army to surrender in panic
>you will never establish contact with Easter Island, think wistfully of what lies beyond the sea, or travel to the farthest reaches of the empire of the four corners where Mapuche savages roam the towering peaks of the Andes
>you will never chew Coca leaves while hiking up to your picturesque villa of Machu Picchu, gaze in awe at the cloudy valley from the highest terrace, and then return to your bed-chambers to fuck your sister
>You will never be a space marine of the God-Emperor of Mankind
>You will never be selected to join a glorious chapter at the age of 7
>You will never overcome the adversities of being a Adeptus Astartes neophyte and join your battle brothers on eternal crusade
>You will never never kill a thousand orcs with nothing but your bolt pistol and combat knife
>You will never butcher a myriad of helpless Tau in melee combat with your chainsword
>You will never Singlehandedly stop a black crusade and butch slap Abbadon the despoiler
>You will never vanquish daemons from the warp
>You will never lay Exterminatus upon a civilized world that forgot to pay it's tithes
>You will never die in glorious combat in the name of humanity
>You will never be entombed in a dreadnought and serve even in death
>you will never develop a nuclear bomb
>you will never churn through the complexities of abstract nuclear physics calculating explosion yield
>you will never use the spark of human intellect to turn mud and rocks into a blaze of primal fire
>you will never scorch the quintessence desert of New Mexico into green glass
>you will never sit alone in your office late at night quietly ponder your unholy burden
>you will never harness the limits of the most powerful nation ever seen pour its rich, untold abundance into your task
>you will never watch the glorious annihilation of the Japanese by your creation, forcing them into the submission of American will
>you will never listlessly watch as the world shudders from your works - moving humanity into a new position of power never before seen.
>you will never look back at the glories of Rome and Byzantium and how they dwarf under your creation
>No poets can sign of arms, as Virgil once did. Our science has petrified the poets.
>>1297485
Tbh living today is the best of all times
>>1297604
>mfw
>>1297478
...this is the life i wanted
