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Where is your “heaven”?

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CurlyhairedAssassin · 02/09/2023 21:42

You know, the scene in films where your loved ones are either waiting for you after you die or you are waiting for them? Maybe with special light effects 😆 The place you’ve felt utter happiness, joy and peace and a sense that all was right with the world?

I just came across an old FB profile pic on a quiet beach in the sunshine in Devon or Cornwall. I was carrying one 2 year old son on my hip (he had just discovered that shallow sea water isn’t actually that terrifying after all and was looking down laughing, for once!) and I was holding the 4 year old’s hand. The sun is behind us highlighting the ripples in the water and the wind is blowing my hair slightly forward. And we all look so happy and carefree. It really was a joyous perfect moment and seeing the photo brought back that feeling.

I can definitely imagine feeling that when it’s my time to go, I will find myself splashing towards the sunbeams on a quiet beach in Cornwall with my family around me. Hopefully the already dead ones, not any family members that I’m bringing with me 😆

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CurlyhairedAssassin · 02/09/2023 22:04

Just me getting all nostalgic then? 😆

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tilestoclean · 02/09/2023 22:26

Sat on a rock overlooking the sea in Finland at sunset. Did it almost every day for two years and there will never be anywhere quite as special for our family

elp30 · 02/09/2023 22:43

I would like for my Heaven to be at the kitchen table at my maternal grandparents's house.

When I was a child, my aunts, uncles and cousins would spend the weekends hanging out at their house, literally all day. They had some land where they raised chickens, pigs and goats, grew their own food and had a horse. I have around 35 first cousins on that side of the family (I have just over 40 on my father's side) so I always had someone to play with outside. The adults would happily sit around the table chatting, eating, drinking coffee. My father was a professional musician so there was music and his singing. My paternal grandmother and maternal grandmother grew up in the same ranch in Mexico (it only had a population of 50 in the 1910-1920's) and knew each other well so my paternal grandmother and my aunts, uncles and cousins would sometimes be there too.

My four grandparents and my mother died by the time I was 11-years-old and the family stopped meeting on the weekends. Eventually, I lost many of my aunts, uncles, cousins and my Dad. I would hope that when it's my time and I there is a Heaven, I'd like to be around that table drinking coffee with them.

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CurlyhairedAssassin · 02/09/2023 23:17

Aah these are lovely scenes that have been posted. I can visualise them. There aren’t many times in life when every thing is just right and you feel at one with the world and totally content.

@tilestoclean do you have Finnish relatives? The sea anywhere evokes so many emotions, doesn’t it? I could sit there for hours watching the waves and the tides. The people coming and going.

@elp30 i was convinced you were going to say your family was Irish for a minute.

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scoobydoo1971 · 03/09/2023 01:00

Being reunited with deceased family.
Being pain and stress free.
Being at peace with oneself.
Floating in a tank of warm water a bit like being in a womb.

poolviewthanks · 03/09/2023 04:52

CurlyhairedAssassin · 02/09/2023 23:17

Aah these are lovely scenes that have been posted. I can visualise them. There aren’t many times in life when every thing is just right and you feel at one with the world and totally content.

@tilestoclean do you have Finnish relatives? The sea anywhere evokes so many emotions, doesn’t it? I could sit there for hours watching the waves and the tides. The people coming and going.

@elp30 i was convinced you were going to say your family was Irish for a minute.

No just a random expat adventure for a while that I will forever be thankful for. Now firmly in suburbia and missing the sea desperately

whatisforteamum · 03/09/2023 05:55

Mine would be In my garden late afternoon sun,peaceful with my bench,plants and my beloved pets would come to me.My old cat and two bunnies who played in the garden and went over the rainbow bridge 3 yrs ago.I would love to see them again.
Birds would be singing.Spent many an hour chilling out there.
Makes me teary to think of it.

TerfTalking · 03/09/2023 06:43

The Yorkshire Dales, high on a hill with nothing but fields and dry stone walling as far as the eye can see.

LemonDrizzle10 · 03/09/2023 07:27

I’d be on Mam Tor walking down to Hollins Cross. I love being there - I feel a sense of calm. It’s where I visualised when just about to go under anaesthetic earlier this year.

CeriB82 · 03/09/2023 07:51

On top of a mountain in snowdonia. An empty mountain, which there are to us locals as we have paths really off the beaten track.

I have laid down once in the dark, switched off my headtorch and all I could see were stars. It was peaceful and dark.

TiredMotherMum · 03/09/2023 07:52

CurlyhairedAssassin · 02/09/2023 21:42

You know, the scene in films where your loved ones are either waiting for you after you die or you are waiting for them? Maybe with special light effects 😆 The place you’ve felt utter happiness, joy and peace and a sense that all was right with the world?

I just came across an old FB profile pic on a quiet beach in the sunshine in Devon or Cornwall. I was carrying one 2 year old son on my hip (he had just discovered that shallow sea water isn’t actually that terrifying after all and was looking down laughing, for once!) and I was holding the 4 year old’s hand. The sun is behind us highlighting the ripples in the water and the wind is blowing my hair slightly forward. And we all look so happy and carefree. It really was a joyous perfect moment and seeing the photo brought back that feeling.

I can definitely imagine feeling that when it’s my time to go, I will find myself splashing towards the sunbeams on a quiet beach in Cornwall with my family around me. Hopefully the already dead ones, not any family members that I’m bringing with me 😆

I'd love to see this pic 🫶🏻

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