This is going to be a very convoluted story so hang on to something. I realize that I put out a post yesterday about this same subject, but I want to fill out those thoughts a little more this time around.

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Back in the days before I learned to “question everything” I was told that the Christian Bible said that when I die I will either go to either heaven or hell. It all depended on whether I believed the “right things” What I did was not important, what i believed is the only thing that mattered. I don’t know if the evangelicals still believe that or if, like so many other things, they have a different belief about that? Anyway…

Anyway getting back to the heaven/hell thing. I was told that after I die my “resurrected” body will go to heaven where I will live in joy and bliss for eternity. “Joy and Bliss” for Eternity? that sounds kinda boring to me. If there is no adversity and struggles how can we know what joy and bliss really mean? Anyway…

If my body goes to heaven for eternity, what body will it be? Will it be that pre-teen boy who knew little about the world outside my immediate home, or will it that crotchety cranky old man who struggles to get out of a chair? Anyway…

If I have a choice I think I want to go to heaven with myself as shown above. I was at one of my favorite places which was Mount Vernon, the home of our first U.S. president. Anyway…

Anyway, to the final point of this story. I would choose to be the young man in the photo above because:

• I had little or no aches and pains.
• I had my life ahead of me, and had finally thrown off most the prejudices I had been taught in my younger years.
• I had a lot more hair back then. The picture was taken in the “Big hair 80s”. I started growing full beards between 1980 and 2005, and in 2011 I trimmed the beard down to a goatee where it remained until yesterday.

Ok, I know the twisted path this story has taken, but now I am ready to tell you about the initial purpose of this post. Starting tomorrow I am going back to the full beard mode of the “Eternal Me”. To do that I shaved off the chin hair to start making up for the lack of top hair. I know that just because I will have more hair above my neck doesn’t mean I will revert back to that eternal guy I have dreamed so much about. But, ANYWAY…