“How long did you live?”
“I died when I was eighty-seven. You?”
“Sixty-five. Heart attack.”
“Lucky, huh?”
“Yeah, I guess.”
“So, the other day, you heard the explanation, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Made sense.”
There was a long pause.
“Not really.”
“Yeah, I know what you mean. Its interesting, when we were alive, people would say stuff like, ‘Well, someday we’ll understand.'”
“I suppose there is something to that. I now get it that much of what mattered so much didn’t and what didn’t, it did.”
“That’s for sure, but the explanation of war, disease and natural disaster, did you follow that?”
“What, did he cover that?”
“You weren’t paying attention?”
“Were you?”
“I was, but, well, to be quite honest, I still don’t get it.”
“Why do you think that is?”
“Well, this might be heaven, but I’m still not God?”
Modern Fables and Antifables 