The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven – and usually the physical comforts they endow it with are naively the kind that can be perceived as we humans perceive – nothing more. No: perhaps I will awake to find myself burning in hell. I think not. I think I will be snuffed out. Black is sleep; black is a fainting spell; and black is death, with no light, no waking. Sylvia Plath
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When you think of heaven, what comes to mind? If you are like me, the first thing you think of is a place that is peaceful and full of beauty. The idea of being with your loved ones again is what keeps us going. When we die, this is what our minds will surely think. However, this is not how it is.

Life on Earth is full of pain and suffering, and it does not always end as we hope it will. Black as sleep, black as a fainting spell, and black as death: this is what we all fear when we think about death. However, there is something that we can do to prevent this from happening: live every day as though it was your last.

Even if we know that we may die tomorrow and go to hell instead of heaven, we can live each day as though it were our last. And the only way to live each day as though it were your last is to not care about anything except yourself.

Source: The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

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