the immortals

It is only when it strikes him that the girl he keeps on seeing doesn't seem to grow up over the years, does the mathematician John Nash realise that she does not exist at all but for his imagination in the Russell Crowe starrer A Beautiful Mind.
But you have lots of others who would be stuck in time for as long as the humankind exists -- the cartoon characters. So you have Jughead and Archies forever going after Betty and Veronica (whatever the order may be), and you have Calvin, alongwith his pal Hobbes, who simply would not stop himself from playing pranks and getting into troubles. That and many more.
So kudos to Tom, Jerry, Hagar, Helga, Calvin, Hobbes, Nancy, Sarge, Beatle, Archies, Jughead, Garfield, Jon, Chintu, and all the wonderful people who try make everyday a good day for all of us. I won't wish them to live a hundred or a thousand, for they are truly the immortals. And this time around, unlike almost a millenium ago, I bet, there won't be a person to put their name to test.