Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today
James Dean.
A couple months ago I was shocked when I got news that one
of my elementary school passed away.
Actually I haven’t met her for a long time, but through Facebook I was
able to connect with her. One day I got
a reminder that her birthday was coming and I was surprised to see many people
still posted in her wall “Happy birthday in heaven, May you have a blast celebration”.
It seemed she still could read her
Facebook account. It made me wonder what the Internet providers could reach
heaven, or what God’s Facebook account.
My imagination went far to heaven and I got the image of birthday party
with angels and God. They brought me into a great imagination in Heaven people
are still busy to check their Facebook account. Maybe someone sell the computer
there or smartphone too. Anyway if I die
I prefer people to send me a prayer instead of writing in my Facebook wall,
because I couldn’t trust Internet providers in heaven
Based on the experience I said to my friend, “If you want to
live forever, first you need to give your Facebook account to your children and
let them keep it for you. You will be still alive in the cyber world and sometimes
they call it heaven. You can still post something from heaven. But please don’t
send me any invitation to join you there” My friend laughed out loud. Amazing how the cyber networking works.
It was funny how people tried to remember others who passed
away; my question is “why we did it when they had gone already, why we didn’t
do it when they were alive”. It was a great lesson for me that I should
appreciate people when they are still alive and they still can see my attention
and love.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to
live forever Mahatma Gandhi.
**Lina Kartasasmita** 11.11.2012 at 6.46 PM Jakarta
