If You Could Pick Your Death Date — How Long Would You Want to Live?
Eternal Life In Heaven or 10,000 Years On Earth?
This year, I turned 53. My first thought was “crap”
Half my life is gone, maybe more and here I am feeling like I haven’t done even a smidgen of the things I always wanted to do: Things I said I would do and never quite got around doing them.
There was a time when my whole life was consumed by all that heaven and hell stuff. Strangely, unlike most people, I was never afraid of hell.
Heaven on the other hand scared the shit out of me. I’m not sure why but a life with no end and absolutely zero problems to solve seemed a little too much, even with white robes, mansions, and all.
I was reflecting on that the other day and realized that it’s not the eternity of life that bothered me, it’s was an eternity in a place other than earth, my home.
On earth, with all its problems, I wouldn’t mind living for a long long time (still not sure about the eternal thing) as long as there were challenges, problems that needed solving, new discoveries, technologies, and of course everyone I love to go along with.
I would love to stick around long enough to see how the world will look…
