Life after death?

I have never been a big reader. I read this book recently named "the lovely bones", a New York bestseller. I don't want to talk about the book here. Recently a movie was made based on the book which I watched before even finishing the book. I would be honest with you while I say this and perhaps most people will agree with me on this, not often we witness that a film which is depicted from a novel doing total justice to it. The renditions of the movie always falls short for many obvious reasons. In our minds imagination takes over the things that aren't so obvious or described in detailed. Book allows our imaginations to thrive in a lot more ways. Secondly, there's the time factor that movies need to maintain. This movie, however, struck me. It not only did justice to the book, even surpassed it in my opinion.

I don't want to offend anyone saying the book was plain darn boring. But I wasn't too into it when I began reading. For a seldom reader like I am, I need the X factor in everything to keep me interested.

Ever wondered how heaven is like? I never think too deep into afterlife after hardly managing to get over thinking about my much troubled current life. Ever wished to see the heaven before you realize your fate swaying between heaven and hell? Wouldn't it be so great to have an orientation of heaven like we have for college? For those who don't know, Muslims, and apparently Christian and Jews along, believe that there is more than one heaven. According to these beliefs, your destination is determined through merit and good deeds. Hey, isn't that what with college too? Your GPA and merits decide which college you are capable of getting into. Now come to think of it, how about we could apply for a certain heaven right after we die and God can take the decision reviewing our application. Pretty sweet huh? I would get back this letter saying, "Thank you for applying to … with great regret we (God and angels) inform you that you didn't meet the minimum requirement for us to consider your place in our heaven… "

Heaven is an elite school folks.

I went way tangent up there. In fact, I even went tangent about the main issue the movie was trying to address in adjacent with afterlife. I don't want to give away too much to the readers here but that movie was an experience of afterlife for me. Heaven is a place where you are never really happy unlike many of us like to think. It's not a place where you are sad either. You get everything you desire, which you get so accustomed to that you don't desire anymore. Desire becomes an inevitable command which yields no satisfaction. You got it even before you wished for it. To make things even worse, a person ( or soul ) can desire for everything, everything in the world, heavens outer space; anything except the thing that matters to any living creations most and that is simply life (unless you believe in reincarnation that is). Life, which our creator bestowed upon us based on the promise that HE will take it back someday, is the most precious gift lent to all creations including mankind. We borrow things or things are lent to us for a purpose.

That makes me conclude life is meant for us to make use of.

It's a starling film with a pinch of illusory of the mystic world known to us as heavens.