Wednesday, February 20, 2008

My Perfect Heaven

I am currently reading a book recommended by my boss. It is called "The Lovely Bones" (the name of the author escapes me). It is about a 15 year old girl who is savagedly killed. The story is not so much about her, but rather about her family, their grief and how they find love and a new "normal" in their lives. I am not even half way through it, so I cannot review it yet.
There is one concept in the book that caught my attention and that seemed fun to explore...
This girl goes to heaven, but in this book, heaven is not one place. Each inidvidual person has a different heaven filled with anything and everything they liked while alive.
I starting thinking about how my heaven would be...

The first real problem I see is that the people you love are not with you anymore, but if I think about it, it is my heaven so I say everyone I have ever liked, would be there. It is my rules anyway...
My heaven would be a beautiful city with nice huge parks. The weather would be mild and all days would be sunny. The sky would not be totally blue, you would see those big puffy fat clouds. You could see a volcano or two far away in the background (close enough to admire, but far away enough not to have to go climb it).
There would be people around, but it would not be overly crowded. I would work in my heaven. Doing nothing does not seem appealing to me. I obviously would not over do it. I would take long leisurely lunches and many, many long weekends.
My children would be the happiest, most well rounded kids ever. Their Spanish would be flawless and I would always approve of their friends and all of their friend's parents would be our good close friends as well. We would all get together on weekends to have parties with dancing, drinking and great food.
My friends and family would not always agree with everything I say, but we would all appreciate the others' point of view and we would constantly learn from one another.
All days would be good hair days. No one would ever be overweight and I would not need a "boob-job" simply because, well, you know... they would be naturally perfect.
The term "house work" would not exist. As soon as you would take your clothes off, they would magically be nicely washed and ironed back in your closet. In my heaven, Patrick would do all the cooking because he likes it and he would also have lots of time. Right after dinner, all the cleanup would instantly be done, so we could have more quality time together.
I love watching my tv shows so they would be around, but commercials would not exist.
Planes would not be necessary because we would all use tele-trasportation to move around.
I am sure I am missing a lot of stuff... oh well, I have to now work hard in making sure that many, many, many years from now I will get my chance to be in my heaven. What would your heaven be like?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, how about chocolate and shopping? Never underestimate the potential these things have.
LG

arquivo pulpsalsa said...

Great! We are going to the same heaven!!! Mine is exactly like yours but it would rain once a month, just so we can stay in bed, reading a book for a change!