Yes it does require more years of high school and education, work hard!!
1) you will outlive everyone you know and love; While you get to see each and every one of them through all their achievements in life, you will also get to see them suffer, and die.
2) you will forever feel alone because every time you start a new relationship, the relationship will seem to end too quickly since to you the few years could few like a few moments.
All I know is that it’s interrogative because the author asks a question to the reader.