Hawaii as Pure land or Heaven

I was riding over to Lanai Island on a snorkel boat from Maui and realized I was in a pure land or heaven realm. Sometimes in life if you are observant you can see you are in heaven. As I thought more about this I thought to myself, "How many places on earth can be pure lands or heavens?" and as I thought about this I realized in some ways, "Almost anywhere is a pure land or heaven for some people most of the time." There is a saying, "One man's heaven is another man's hell" and this is also true because it is in the eyes of the beholder in the end. However, not having seen my older daughter in several months because she lives in Oregon and now being able to travel by snorkel boat to Lanai with her to see Sea Turtles, 50 or more spinner Dolphins and their babies and hundreds and hundreds of tropical fish and coral beds underwater was really a life long dream for me. Swimming with all these beautiful sea creatures in water as clear as glass on an 80 plus degree day was amazing. Even though I had at age 12 to around 21 or so been a surfer in California and dreamed of this particular kind of experience I had never before done this in Hawaii even though I had lived here on the big island in 1974 and on Maui in 1989 and 1990.(However, I should not what I usually did while living here is to "Beach dive and snorkel" which costs nothing but gas for your car if you own your own snorkels. Part of the reason I hadn't boat dived in Hawaii was both time and money. When I was younger I often had time but not enough money but now I have both so I am very grateful to God and the universe for providing for me and my family. So, even though I dreamed all my life of boating out to a "perfect" diving and snorkeling spot somewhere in Hawaii it hadn't happened yet. But today I was in the heaven of a life long dream come true. So, even though motion sickness got me a couple of times which made the fish happy because they changed color while feeding on what came up. I was in heaven the whole time because I knew the full value of what I was experiencing.

Whereas a young man on his honeymoon who couldn't have been older than 20 (both of them) threw up and hid his face in shame in a towel from his beautiful new wife. His wife seemed very supportive and in love with him and lay her head in his lap in trying to be supportive to him.  I worried that his experience shamed his version of reality and hoped it wouldn't harm his new marriage. So, one man's Heaven might be another man's hell. But maybe it is experience and wisdom that one gains through life that allows us to value what actually is important. So, maybe one day even he might value this time with his incredibly beautiful new bride and understand that even he and his new wife were in heaven this day even though motion sickness got him too for a time.

So, I think all of us are searching for our own heaven or heavens in this lifetime. I have been lucky. I have found many heavens and one of them is my family. So, whenever I'm with one or more of them I tend to be happy and in heaven.

However, if you are thinking of moving to the Hawaiian Island Heaven realm just remember it costs about 3 times as much to live here as it does the mainland. It's one of the reasons my family in the past didn't stay longer than about a year or two here at a time. So, for example, if you are happy living on 25 to 50,000 dollars a year expect to somehow make 75,000 to 150,000 dollars a year for a similar lifestyle here. So, just multiply what you are making now by three for a similar lifestyle in Hawaii. And the price of gas might be a problem eventually because of what is happening in the middle east in Syria, Iran etc. So, one of the reasons I don't live in Hawaii now is in a real oil crunch I wouldn't want to be in Hawaii if oil and gas was 10 to 20 dollars a gallon for some reason because it could be very difficult at that point to live here unless you were able to grow your own food on a ranch or farm here or had extended family to help you in Hawaii.