Hello Benjamin,

You asked, “Do we get bored if it never ends?”

As you think about eternal life, you’re thinking about an eternal “now.” You’re envisioning yourself as you are now for eternity. That’s not the way it is at all.

Everything always changes. It never stays the same. That’s true of this life and of eternal life. Think of it like this. You were five years old. No one would want to be a five year old for their entire life, and certainly not for eternity. However, you grew into a ten year old. Your life was different, and interesting for different reasons. When you were 5, you were preoccupied with what a 5 year old likes. But at 10, you had changed. You were pursuing what a 10 year old likes.

You were never bored from 5 years old to 10 years old because you were changing and life was changing. Everything was new every year, with surprises along the way to spice up your life.

Then, when you turn 20, 30, 40, 50, and onward, you’ll have new lives and new challenges with each age. You’ll be changing and life will be changing.

That’s what eternal life is like. But the changes are much more profound than changing from a 5 year old to a 50 year old. Imagine changing from a bluebird to a nuclear physicist. You were never a bluebird, of course (I don’t think!). I’m just saying that’s how strikingly different we become. So being this hypothetical bluebird was fun and interesting, but through every stage in your growth and change, over thousands of years, to eventually become a nuclear physicist, you’d be a different person. You’d see the world through different eyes, participate in different lives and challenges, and learn different things.

Right now, you’re looking at life through the eyes of whom you are. You’re at the highest state right now, for right now. You can’t see what you’d be like in 2,000 Earth years, just as a two year old could never see what it will be like to be a 70 year old. You’ll be remarkably different, in ways you can’t imagine. But just as you had enjoyable challenges and events in your life when you were 5 that preoccupied you, you’ll have new, enjoyable challenges in your life 2,000 years or 2 million Earth years from now. But you can’t begin to envision them, just as you couldn’t envision being 50 when you were 5.

Just be assured that nothing stays the same. You will not be the person you are today. You have great adventures and marvelous changes to experience. You’re on a journey that never ends, and never stops presenting new worlds, and it will never be boring.

You asked, “Are we always content? Do we ever feel insane or mopey and depressed?”

We will feel insane or mopey and depressed if we choose that for ourselves in an incarnation. In the in between stage, we will be blissful and content. That’s the world of happiness and contentment. And we can stay there as long as we wish. But we’ll become restless, just as you describe. We will get tired of being where we are, and we’ll want to grow and have new experiences. Then we’ll choose to incarnate onto a plane or world that we can’t even envision now. It will be like picking up a new video game that has all new challenges in it. But we’ll live the video game, not just play it. And from that, we’ll grow and change, just as we did from a 5 year old to a 10 year old. And we’ll then go back to the comfortable world with our loved ones who have had experiences with us in the incarnation, or have had their own experiences elsewhere. But they’ll always be available to us.

Then, after a while, we’ll decide we want to learn and grow more, so we’ll do another incarnation. It’ll be like being in many, many lives, a 5, 10, 15, 25, 30, year old in China, in Australia, in Greenland, in England, and in 2500 BCE, 100 CE, 1800 CE, 3550 CE, and on entirely new planets in new universes. We’ll have different settings and different lessons to learn. We’ll grow to be quite different.

Don’t worry about being bored. You have an infinite number of new adventures ahead of you that will always leave you wide-eyed.

You asked, “Lets say I enjoy playing PC games with my friends in my life, would I be able to play it with them again in the afterlife, just as I would here? Would I be able to enjoy music and Television as I would on Earth?”

Yes! For as many centuries as you want to. You will not be required to do or be anything you don’t want to do or be. And whatever you most love, that will be available to you. Then, if you change and don’t want those things, or if you decide to incarnate into another plane with another environment and new challenges, you can do it.

Eternity is exciting. It’s full of wonderful experiences. So many we could never experience them all, even in eternity. Look forward to it.

Love and peace, Craig