In my heaven...

“Inside the snow globe on my father’s desk, there was a penguin wearing a red and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect at on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said “Don’t worry Susie; he has a nice life. He’s trapped in a perfect world.’”

I just started re-reading The Lovely Bones; I like how the author Alice Seabold perceives heaven.

It’s an interesting idea. She describes heaven as when you die you go to place and in that place is what you make of it. And in these heavens you share a place with someone who might have similar interest as you do. Like Susie, meets a girl who likes dogs, so in both of their heavens, they have dogs.

Also, in the book there’s a line about a teacher's daughter who died of leukemia.

“His daughter died a year and a half after I did. She had leukemia, but I never saw her in my heaven.”

It made me think that if there is a heaven, is it much like described here, where things you love appear. And if so in my heaven would there be a massive ocean and an amazing camera. Would there be things for me to photograph? But then no one would see and it would seem that endless amounts of creativity would finally be at my finger tips in my heaven, and no one would see them.

And would I see people who I had loved or known in my heaven? Would it be just like that? Would it be like they say where you join loved ones in heaven, because in the book it took a few years before Susie was reunited with anyone in her heaven? Well except her dog, he came as soon as he died.

So, in Susie heaven it had other girls that were murdered in it. Would that mean that girls who had the same death trait as me that we would share a heaven and had I been murdered would I want to have a heaven like that?

I love the speculation of this idea, and the images that the author created with in the book. Not to mention how much the book draws me to it. I enjoy it a lot, hence reading it for a third time since it came out.

In my heaven, there will be massive amounts of books… I know this much is true.

"All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come."