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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.

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Previous Comments

nice blog. i wonder what mine looks like. hmm…

Posted by unang.nagcomment at August 29, 2008, 11:35 am

First paragraph pa lang nosebleed na ko! Tisyu nga! :)
You know the Japanese (I think) believe that the soul takes a form that resembles puffs of smoke, as seem from anime (dragon ball), hehe

Posted by Rico at August 29, 2008, 12:13 pm

in the anime bleach, they have what they call a “soul society,” there, the souls live together in a community, houses and all. nice. :)

Posted by mordsith at August 29, 2008, 1:32 pm

The first question, mordsith, is “DO you have a soul?”

JOKE! :)

I’ve always imagined our soul as something inside us that when we die, it will just be floating around. I haven’t really thought much about my soul except that my body will not survive without it… I will not be a person without it.

And I think it looks like me…

Posted by kg at August 30, 2008, 6:42 am

first thing’s first: i like this topic and i really love how you presented your views and questions. :-)

i have always been influenced by the belief that our souls in the after life would be like our best earthly state if we go to heaven and the worst one if otherwise. [take note that this will be our state of mind, emotion, health, etc for eternity.] i still believe na ganun ang case ng soul. i don’t think our sold resembles anything right now. i think it’s the collective ‘body’ consist of our conscious to unconscious mind. it doesn’t really look like anything.

parang sa mankind. you can’t really answer what the early civilization looked like. but you can describe the early government, trade, economy, technology, etc. and its totality will account for the civilization. as an individual, i can probably describe my personal preferences, morals, etc. and collectively, i’d say that’s my soul.

pero again, in the after life (yes, i believe in the after life), i believe our souls would look like us.. the best — or worst — state of us when we were still alive.

good times.

[ps: the next chery QQ is mine!]

Posted by eks at August 30, 2008, 1:50 pm

eks, na-nosebleed ako!

Posted by kg at September 1, 2008, 8:54 am

kg: you got a nice question to ponder there! haha :p

eks: seems to me you have thought about this also. i understand the whole concept of the collective, etc. still, it’s nice if i i can see my soul. :)

Posted by mordsith at September 1, 2008, 10:05 am

Whatever you want it to be!

An angel with wings, or one that shoots laser beams out of your third eye, it matters not, we have to try to exceed the limits we’ve set upon ourselves in this plane of existence - if you so desire, we could wake up from the dream, we could unplug from the matrix, we could meet the maker - or we could live forever just to see how long forever takes

in any case, I’m sure you can fly - if you really want to

Posted by t2rad at September 1, 2008, 9:22 pm

t2rad, you sounded like my professor talking about decentralization in poetry. he’s my favorite. :)

living forever and flying? seemed like eternal solitude, one in which i can surely find lestat. :D

Posted by mordsith at September 2, 2008, 9:58 am

sana may mag-tagalog…

Posted by pilipino at September 2, 2008, 7:19 pm

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