How do I imagine the Heaven?

 I didn't know what I could expect from it. I knew it was a good videogame because I read some enthusiastic comments around the web but I didn't know it could hypnotize me as well as it has done. I'm talking about 'Bioshock Infinite', but don't worry. This post is not a review of this videogame because I have to finish yet. However, stay tuned... I'll do it soon.

So, now I'd want to write the revelation it suggested on me. The story behind the game is not very important, the only thing you need to know is that the game starts with the Hero who arrives in a new world, in a room similar to a cavern or a cave, a basement that seems a Church: candles, Holy statues, Hymns and the song. The Song.

I didn't know it but since I've listen to it I can't get it out of my mind.

It's "Will the circle be unbroken", an old song from 1907 written by Ada R. Haberson and Charles H. Gabriel, who composed the melody. It's an old Christian hymn and it's really hypnotical. I don't find any better word to describe it.

It suggested me so much thoughts that I couldn't sleep once I was upon my bed later.

The song's theme is the mourning. It's about loved people who passes away, going to the Sky, and writing "Sky" with the capital S I mean the House of the Lord. It's a kind of hopeness' song because it gives us the opportunity to think one day we'll meet them again. And the family will rejoin again.

The fact is that the song is so ethereal and celestial and stunned that it pushes you to think about the Sky, the Heaven, the Lord. So, how do I imagine the Heaven?

Here it is the surprise. I don't see the Heaven as it has been designed by Dante Alighieri. I don't see clouds, children with wings or blonde hair, a lot of people without sex and wore with a white outfitters. No, I see a different Heaven. I fancy it as 'Second Life'.

Do you know 'Second Life'? The social web-world?

I imagine a place with sense of time because there are both daylight and nightlife, but where there's no rush hours, anybody in haste, no traffic. 

A world where people can fly, if they want and without wings, just because they want.

A world very similar to the real one but where everybody can create his own house or place just with his mind. Where there are money but they're not so important because the appetite and the survival are not in danger. So everybody can work but only if they want because in my Heaven the job is not necessary to earn money to spend for survive, the job is creativity, it's an expression of what we are.

Do you like to be a writer? Let's do it even if anybody will pay you for a book. Do you like to be a chef or an artist? Do it. 

A world where there aren't consequences for your actions because you can't be hurt and you can't die. 

A place where the relationships are important but where you can also be by yourself. A world where you can find the same things you can find on the planet earth but without the ache and the stress we have here.

A world where you can create your part of the world because there aren't boundaries. A place where you can spend hours and hours without doing anything or travelling seeing what others have done or working just because you like and not because you need.

A world with sex, of course, because sex is God's present for humans and in his world it couldn't miss. Here sex isn't breed-oriented but it's just for our pleasure. And if you don't like your dimension or a part of your body, well, change it. There are specific shops where you can change something of your body, more muscles for your arms, a turtle for your stomach, even new hair. There is only one boundary: you can't change your face because of it is your business card, your personal key to be recognized.

A world where you can go to theaters or to discoclubs for dancing, wherever you want.

A world where you can also watch what happens to the real one because the televisor has every tv channels existent in the world. And then there are the specific channels: they show the life of the person you want to see. Your brother or husband or other is still on the earth? You can follow him on the tv. As if it was the 'Big Brother' tv show: you can watch him but you can't get into his life.

This is the Heaven I'd like. No sorrow, no bad news, no Bible. I see a world similar to ours, but without the bad things we are here. 

The perfect world.

Unfortunately I guess there's no Heaven...

Let's watch this movie and then tell me if you'll manage to sleep tonight or you'll be kept by your thoughts... 

LYRIC

There are loved ones in the glory

Whose dear forms you often miss.

When you close your earthly story,

Will you join them in their bliss?

CHORUS:

Will the circle be unbroken

By and by, by and by?

Is a better home awaiting

In the sky, in the sky?

In the joyous days of childhood

Oft they told of wondrous love

Pointed to the dying Saviour;

Now they dwell with Him above.

(Chorus)

You remember songs of heaven

Which you sang with childish voice.

Do you love the hymns they taught you,

Or are songs of earth your choice?

(Chorus)

You can picture happy gath'rings

Round the fireside long ago,

And you think of tearful partings

When they left you here below.

(Chorus)

One by one their seats were emptied.

One by one they went away.

Now the family is parted.

Will it be complete one day?

(Chorus)