.Heaven.....a place or condition? A promise that is guaranteed by many religions with various conditions. Where there is no more sadness, sorrow, poverty, hurt, anger, sickness and envy. So far there is no certainty of the existence of heaven and a really clear picture of it. What if heaven doesn't exist and it's just a myth, imagination, fantasy of ancient people in their suffering to keep giving him hope for an uncertain future. No one knows, all discussions about it finally end in the stages of faith that each individual believes. How much each believe that belief.
If heaven does exist can it be presented on earth? The absence of sadness, sorrow, poverty, hurt, anger, sickness and envy can be present on this earth. Indeed, exposure to various news in the media makes us seem powerless to keep our minds bright and positive. At first the newspapers were full of encouraging and positive news, but strangely they did not sell well. When the contents were replaced with negative news, scary, criminal, threats, damage, destruction, destruction, strangely, the newspaper actually sold well. And because the purpose of the advertising and newspaper industries at that time was purely business, so things like that were always reported, until this moment. Although often the news is not necessarily 100% true, the rest are hoaxes and spices that stimulate the curiosity and thirst of people to get more news.
Even research produces data that states that people feel better, comfortable when they see, hear or read that there are others who suffer more than themselves. This is the basic material for the media from the past until now.
Consciously or unconsciously day after day throughout our lives we are exposed to negative news both visually, audally, and automatically mentally and spiritually. If there was one day a week where we agreed to only spread and read news that is positive, uplifting, non-judgmental, gives hope, no envy, things that soothe the heart, make you laugh out loud. Approximately such a day will probably be waited every week. Where we forget all tiredness, fatigue, sorrow, sad news, disappointment and envy. Back to being a real human being born with joy and full of hope without worries. Like children who can laugh out loud in any condition, including during a pandemic like now.
Seems like Sunday was that kind of day. Where we gather with loved ones to share happiness and joy, forgetting all the work and complaints of life. But now, Sundays are often still days where we struggle with work or even a long sleep day after being tired for a week doing something that we don't really enjoy and draining our energy just for the sake of a certain nominal certainty each month.
Can we have that kind of day again? If not once a week maybe once a month, once every two months, once every three months, or maybe once a year? How far are we from heaven? If we are not comfortable making ourselves happy because of guilt, then will we be happy in heaven someday if there is only happiness. There is a book that writes that guilt is Satan's greatest weapon to defeat humans. By feeling guilty we never become comfortable with ourselves. The term is now insecure. It is this guilt that compels people to do more than they can sometimes endure in both a positive and negative sense. It's really amazing this human being. Structurally hierarchically higher than the devil, but often controlled by guilt that makes him helpless. Try from our smallest environment, nuclear family, extended family, RT, RW, Kelurahan, and so on until it becomes a country or the world. Make one day, a 'Happy Day' where we ignore all negative news. National holidays, international holidays, Happy Day. So that for a moment we can feel Heaven on Earth.