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Entry tags:	pormpt, prompt #23

Prompt # 23 Do you believe in an afterlife?
Prompt #23 Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what do you expect to find when you get there?

Do I believe in an after-life? Yeah, course I do. What was I going to say? That Ma, Father Behan and all those nuns didn’t know what they were talking about? They did. Yeah, I was brought up Catholic, taught by nuns. Sure I’ve got a bit lax in the last few years; I don’t go church that much, I got divorced from Angie but I still believe most of the stuff they taught us at Sunday School.

As a cop you see things that make you wonder of there’s a God but doesn’t stop me believing in him. So, yeah, I think there’s a heaven. Maybe it’s not made of clouds and have a big gold gate or a bunch of angels singing, but it’s there, somewhere. I’m not sure what heaven’s like, maybe it’s like a park, maybe it’s like being able to feel like a kid again, no responsibilities. Not that being a kid is easy. In heaven maybe everything is easy, maybe that’s what makes it heaven.

So if there’s a heaven, yeah, there’s a hell. You have to have both. My father isn’t in heaven so he’s got to be in hell. Or he would be in hell if he didn’t keep appearing to tell me how I’m screwing my life up. At least now he’s dead I don’t have to listen to him, I can just ignore him. Not that I listened to him when he was alive. So if there’s an after-life for my lousy father, or his ghost, whatever he is, then there’s got to be an after-life for everybody else, even me. I just hope it’s not fire and brimstone. Or that it has too many clouds.