Archive for February 2008
Do I Really Want Heaven Now?
I asked my wife the other night if she believes in heaven. By asking her the question, my objective was two-fold. I was curious if she believed in an actual, physical space where it’s “all good”. At the same time, I wanted to explore what my thoughts on the subject were because I wasn’t really concerned or interested about what happens after my current persona passes on, but how the concept of experiencing heaven can be like right now.
It’s All Good
In my last entry, I raised the challenge about what I really want. Since starting this blog, I’ve become frozen. Stuck in the mud. I am a little shocked to find that I do not know what I want. I have the strange feeling that there are many more people out there just like me. Going through repetitive motions. Lives without a grand plan. This got me thinking.
Why Not Plan Heaven On Earth Right Now?
In other words, why wait? I think this is why the question of what I really want was so challenging. Maybe there was guilt or doubt surfacing every time I thought of a concept like living in a grand home or having some sort of external possession. These were the counter objective feelings I would experience that caused me to be stuck. Now, by changing the focus, and asking a new question, I might be able to determine what I want by exploring what heaven on Earth could be like. The easiest way to do this is to create a list. Here goes:
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Heaven is: my family. I love my family. I love my children. I love my wife. I love me…of course I do…I am the one experiencing all of this.
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Heaven is: my friends. I love my friends. I choose them wisely and they share my life experiences with me which have the effect of enhancing the experiences.
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Heaven is: a beautiful place to live. Not just one place though. I do have a dream home in mind. But the Earth is such a big place that I don’t want to be stuck in just one place. I want to experience many places. I will travel to many other dream locations but always have a place to call home. I know exactly where this home is going to be. It’s not too big but just the right size to make my friends and family feel the warm embrace and love in a home. For whatever reason, the actual, physical home is important to me. I will be using an entry to show clips of homes, perhaps around the country, that I find a great attraction to.
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Heaven is: travelling. I love to experience new places. See new people. Taste new things. Smell different fragrances. See different styles. See beautiful things. The excitement of arriving at a new destination in and of itself is wonderful. It’s like being born again. We arrive into a place where every corner is new. Every face is different. There are so many places I love.
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Heaven is: a successful career. I don’t want to just hang out in heaven. I wouldn’t mind massages, being fed grapes and getting fanned by beautiful women now and then, but I couldn’t do that all day long. I have talents. I want to experience them to the fullest and share them. Right now, I enjoy the profession of equity trading immensely. I love the new group I’m in and I’m expanding my menu (creating a growth and income portfolio) to enhance my experience. The sky (heaven?) is the limit within this field and the beauty of it is that it is such a wide open field with many different flavors. The more I explore, the more fulfilling it becomes.
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Heaven is: Surfing. I love surfing so much. There isn’t a day that passes where I do not think about surfing. If I could, I would surf every day in heaven.
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Heaven is: Sex. Making love. Whatever you want to call sexual ecstasy. I am not going to deny something that I think about everyday. It’s real and it’s natural and I love it.
There are many, many more heavenly things that would make it on this list. The list of seven above is a great base or starting point. The beauty and wonderful thing about life is that we as humans like surprises. We might grumble and say that life would be better if everything worked out the “way we planned it” but we would totally be lying to ourselves. I think that would be boring. For example, I could plan a place to travel and make a list or description of exactly how I want the weather to be, the places to go, the food to eat but I would be bored if there wasn’t an element of surprise. You know, experience that something new and different.
How can I turn this list into something objective. The first start, as aforementioned, is to find pictures of homes and post them in this blog. Perhaps I could add dream cars and so on. The travelling portion, I will create a post and list all the places I love to travel to. In another blog, I will create and explore my career further.
This is a good start………….
