Terribly Comfortable
I have a brand new pearly white pair of tennis shoes (or walking shoes or whatever they are) in my closet. I never wear them. I prefer the old pair, which look terrible but are so comfortable. They fit me perfectly and I slip into and out of them so easily.
I think maybe this is how I will feel about this world when I have slipped out of it, soaring around in my pearly white afterlife, but longing for my old world, which looked so terrible but was really so so comfortable.
Memory in reverse is Imagination.”
—The Magical Dog Who Never Sleeps
About Stephen
Stephen Evans is a playwright and author who came to Maryland for the waters. He was not misinformed.
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Causes Stephen Evans Supports
Best Friends Animal Society (http://www.bestfriends.org)
I am enlightened by your take
I am enlightened by your take on tennis shoes and the afterlife! I think that I don't fear death, however I find myself wondering how and what of me at the moment of death. At least now I can look forward to thinking about something comfortable to help ease myself into the afterlife. Thanks for the insight!
Thanks Rina
New Balance, in case you were wondering.
Where was I?
Steve, I don't think you'll know that you've gone until you wonder what you did with your iPhone. It takes a while to catch up with the plot.
You won't miss us, but we shall miss you :)
Obliviion for the Oblivious
There is a story in Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land (one of my deep favorites) about a martian who is so engrossed in his art he doesn't notice when he dies and just goes on working. That will be me, I suspect. I hope so anyway. I would be curious to see that story.