the old safeguard commercial

August 29, 2008

          Due to my developing lack of attention and to my aimlessly wandering mind, I was hit by a sudden thought—one that, after a few days, I’m still wondering about.

          Last weekend, while in a car and not speaking to anyone, I was staring blankly outside the window, hypnotizing myself with the electric posts that amazingly seemed to have a very exact distance apart from each other. Then, boom! I asked myself a very important (?) question—what does my soul look like?

          Was it like the kunsensiya in the old safeguard commercial? Would she (or it?) be a translucent mirror image of what I look like when I die? Or would it take the image of a healthy me? Or of an entirely different face? Do souls all look alike? Would a soul be blackish if the person was bad in real life? Colors may be a good way of labeling the souls (haha!). I was also thinking if my soul would walk around the earth before moving on to the light (hope not to the dark), exploring the world without a body and maybe seeing more colors than I used to have when I was alive.

          And how would my soul move on to the afterlife? Would there be a bus for all souls that would take them there? Or would my lone soul rise up to heaven (aha! finally, I’d be able to fly!)? I hope there is an angel of death who’d walk me through the afterlife. It sure hell is scary starting a new “life.”

          I am assuming of course that my soul is “trapped” inside my human body. What if that is not the case? What if she was just walking around with me, sleeping beside me, and if she is a bit of an adventurer, going long distances away from me? I hope I could talk to her and ask her a zillion questions; after all, isn’t it advisable to get to know yourself?

          Another assumption here is that the souls have human forms (at least those of humans). What if they have animal shapes? People have always described themselves as certain animals. Maybe that’s why… If my soul has an animal shape, I’d want it to be a unicorn (because it has wings!), though I’m pretty sure the unicorn and I barely have the same traits.

          What if my soul is without shape? Would it be like a ray of light blending with rays of the sun? I like that.