Back in my school days, a friend of mine, often jokes about heaven being a not so great of a place. And that hell is better. The famous people, singers, artists (comedians and dramatist) are all in hell. He goes on saying that all that people does in heaven is pray all day long and worship The Creator. I'm not really a big fan of this but in time this grew into me.
I'm not a bad person though, at least in my opinion. I do good, at times (I think). Well, anyway, kindness and goodness, in my believe (that is) is separate from religion. One can be not so religious but still be good (in whatever term). Also, a friend of mine calls himself an agnostic and somehow, same as the other one, it rubbed off on me too.
Another friend of mine also talks of an empty heaven. Or perhaps it was from a book. I don't know. Vague memories. He asked me, is it worth to go to heaven without your friends there? Will I be happy there even if I'm alone?
Oddly enough, it seems hell was surely sugarcoated by my peers back when I was still in school. So weird peer group I immersed myself in.
Anyhow, I stood by my principle of goodness and kindness without religious after I graduated. It sounds hollow but it seems good enough if people doesn't know of your faith. I get by, that's is true. But it seems I'm lying whenever a friend of mine invites me to church. Guess, that's it about.
My perspective of hell changed only recently when I've read Dante's Inferno. It made me scared, somehow, of going there. Scared and sad at the same time. The book did talked of renown names, whom I'm not familiar with, all of them suffering, in pain. and not happy. A complete opposite my peers told me of. There is no happiness there.
Well, I could not say I'm not terrified of the idea of heaven as well, note that I haven't yet read purgatorio and paradiso so perhaps my view will change then. My idea of heaven is still as that, praying and worships of some sort. At least, this is my earthly perspective.
Whatever though, my view of kindness and goodness won't change. Well, at least until something happens... I don't know, perhaps?
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