Why Humans Live a Hundred Years

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Why Humans Live One Hundred years A long time ago, when there was only 1 human in the world, everything lived forever. One day, the god of ages, called Hecarim, decided everything needed an time to die. So he decided to have a contest. He decided whoever woke up first in the morning the next day would live 1000 years. The second would live one hundred years. The third would live 20 years. And the fourth would live 5 years. They rest would live between 1 year and 4 years. Hecarim loved the human the most and wanted the human to win. So he gave the human a rock for a pillow and a thorn bush for a blanket. That way, the human would sleep terribly and the human would win. And then the night came. There was one thing Hecarim hadn't counted on. The human was very lazy. In the night, the human threw the rock at a tree and the torn bush at a rooster. He then got a cotton pillow and blanket and went to sleep comfortably. In the morning, Hecarim started yelling. The tree who got hit by a rock woke up first. Then the rooster. Then the dog. And finally, the human woke up. He got five years. The human was very sad. He thought to himself, in five years I can't do anything. Suddenly, he saw the rooster crying. He went over and asked the rooster what was wrong. The rooster replied," in one hundred years, all my feathers will fall off and I will look very ugly." The human had an idea. He said," how about we switch?" The rooster agreed. Then everyone lived happily ever
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