Heaven

During my elementary and high school days, we were taught and made to believe about about heaven and hell in our catechetics and religion classes. We have even seen movies with settings of heaven and earth. Now that I am old and have seen, understand and experience the realities of life, I can define what heaven is. If we relate heaven from the teaching of religion, we can say that it is a perfect place. Perfect in a sense that it is peaceful, full of love, happines and understanding, devoid of sufferings and pains. But if I define it being a mortal and without religious implications, heaven for me depends on how each individual perceives it. For me, it's how you gain happines and success. It depends on your attitudes towards life or how positive a person is in his perspective or outlook in life, regardless of the sufferings or pains he has experienced.