This life is like a waiter's/waitress' life, some may argue about the analogy, but life, narratives and analogies are subjective. So what people disagree with about my analogy do not bother me. Nor do I care. It is all about the visionary.
Digressing, from the start, the server begins at fifteen to twenty percent gratuity. Aforementioned gratuity either ascends or descends given the good or bad service one gets from said server; hence, life is the same way. We start at the maximum gratuity at birth and subsequently it heightens or lessens, depending upon, what we do with our various individual lives that we are given. If we serve well, in the Christian belief, we get rewarded with eternal life of perceived blissfulness. If we do not serve well, it is eternal life of hell, figuratively and literally, so the Christian belief tells one and all.
I say differently. I have had many dreams of what I would perceive as hellish: packs of dogs chasing and overtaking me with teeth that look as though they could dismember me with one big chomp, and feeling as though I was so hot that I wanted to disrobe and continue running but could not because every second lost is a second of the dogs catching me faster, as in life, one cannot run away from this life, it always catches up with one and overtakes and wins.
I have also had dreams that I was standing at the precipice of hell. Looking ahead and seeing nothing but a lake of fire as far as my eyes could see and feeling the intense heat emitting off of the lake and finally waking up sweating profusely…I cannot do a thing about what will transpire to my soul subsequent to death. Nothing. Except to swan dive off said precipice into the raging lake of fire. I lived my life how I lived my life. No more. No less. There is nothing else I can do to change the penance that will have befallen me. And I will accept it for eternity. If we are to believe the Christians and that’s a big, “IF.”
Now, I must live life like I understand how to live it. Whatever happens after it is all said and done is out of my control. Amen!
I smile oft times while I am going through my daily routines, whatever that comprises, and think about how this world started and why, as in biblical standards, we were put into the situation that we are in: two people supposedly working and were woefully deficient in their employment responsibilities and obligations. Lazy, shiftless employees. Both being enticed, bribed, while on the job and both suffering great penances for taken said bribe, being fired. Making working conditions for the future employees untenable, horrible.
Why? Two workers dealing with one enticement. Just one. One that both found too appealing to pass up or to deny. Just one. Now, there are a plethora of enticements, too many to count.
I think often about how unfair this whole thing that we call life is taking into consideration, again, from the Chritian credo: Two people having just one lure and took the bait. Funny. I…now, living in a world with billions of serpents with just as many enticements and having to make the right choices constantly for a life of eternal bliss, often thinking, after going through this scenario, about how the two would fair in this world of deceit and treachery? And having to co-exist with billions of other people…
Adam nor Eve…would not stand a fucking chance!
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