From the Other Side of Heaven with Robin Williams

Recently an article on Facebook caught my eye: My Lunch with the Spirit of Robin Williams. Well, curiosity got the best of me and I was wondering too how Robin was doing on the other side. A spiritual medium who quite often talks with famous actors and actresses who have died wrote the article.

I guess the living ones are too boring.

Anyway, it seems like he’s doing quite fine, making people laugh and cracking jokes. The article goes on to tell us that  Robin reports that it’s all about the same on the other side except there is no traffic and, here’s the caveat…. you can have sex with anyone at anytime.

Well, I can think of a lot of people who might be checking out soon if that’s the case, uh, for the traffic-free highways.

Anyway, I ran to my husband and tell him the good news (the easy driving, of course) and  I ask him if we really need to be doing 613 commandments. I mean it seems like the others side is just one big party and maybe we shouldn’t be working so hard here.

Here I am beating my chest every day, cooking meals for sick people, worrying if I accidentally washed my meat fork in my dairy dishwasher, and the other side is just people cracking jokes and speeding down the highway to their next partner?

What is one to think?

Maybe I should stop reading articles from spirit mediums.

I would have liked to ask Robin if he’s met any religious people? I’m sure if I did, he’d show up with a streimel on his head singing “Hava Nagilah” just to make me laugh.

I often wonder about what happens after we die. I suppose I’m not so unusual in that aspect. So like most people I think about it.  I often think back to a time in my life when I was about 7 years old. I remember the day clearly. I was swimming underwater and it was the perfect temperature. I thought to myself, “I hope there are swimming pools I heaven.”

As I’ve grown older I’ve wondered a lot of things, like “I hope there are national parks, trees, lakes and dogs in heaven.”  I suppose my view has changed as I’ve grown. Apparently, I have some evolving to still do.

Maybe heaven has something to do with our consciousness.

Well, I don’t have any answers here. But I’m sure it will all be worked out so I’m going to go back to working on those mitzvot. In fact, I think I’m going to design a “Mitzvah-Bit.” It will keep track of your good deeds, peaceful sleep cycles and subtract for each mishap (aka: sin). I’ve only mastered about 5 of the 613 commandments and if I’m going to meet any righteous people when I get to the other side, I’d better get to work.

Otherwise, I’m going to have to watch a lot of reruns of Mork and Mindy with a pack of dachshunds on my lap. Right now that sounds like pure pleasure. #heaven,