How to Get to Heaven
A man with a dog walked on a long and tiresome road.
He walked for a long time and got very tired. The dog was tired too.
Suddenly in front of him he noticed an oasis!
A beautiful gate – and behind the fence – music, flowers, the sound of a stream.
“What is this place?” the traveler asked the gatekeeper.
“This is paradise, you have already died, and now you can enter and relax.”
“Is there water there?”
“As much as you want: clean fountains, cool pools…”
“Will they give me something to eat?”
“Whatever you want.”
“But the dog is with me.”
“Sorry, sir, you can’t go in with dogs.” The dog will have to stay here.
So the traveler turned and continued his journey along the road.
After a while, the road led him to a farm.
A gatekeeper also sat at the gate.
“I’m thirsty,” the traveler asked.
“Come in, there is a well in the yard.
“And my dog?
“Near the well you will see a drinking bowl.
“What to eat
“I can treat you to dinner.”
“And the dog?
“There is a bone.
“What is this place?”
It is a paradise.
How so? The gatekeeper at the palace nearby told me that heaven is there.
“He’s lying.” There it is hell.
“Why do you let them lie like this?”
“Well, they are actually very useful for us. Because only those who do not abandon their friends reach the real paradise.”