He's 'Looking Down on You'

They would be bored silly watching me!
My parents were horrible people, they might be looking down with a very critical eye!

I say it but don't imagine they are actually watching me. It is just a comfort thing, feeling close to them. However I do believe that energy cannot be created or destroyed and everything is connected and part of something in ways we can't fully understand

No I don’t believe it. My father and I were very close, sadly he died when I was 22, but I remember him saying if there is a way of contacting you after I’ve gone I will, he never has. My father-in-law died when my husband was 25, he was very close to my sister-in-law who is five years older than my husband and she has gone to psychics over the years who have told her what I think is nonsense about him sending her messages through flowers but if it gives her some comfort that’s fine.

I don’t believe anyone is watching me, but the thought that they might be is one of many legacies from my RC upbringing.
I feel quite spooked at the thought sometimes.

Not religious, but if I were I'd think my father was looking up at me.

Rekarie 😂

I saw a white feather on my drive - I didn’t pick it up or think much of it. But where did it come from? I haven’t seen many white birds about 😂

crazyH

I saw a white feather on my drive - I didn’t pick it up or think much of it. But where did it come from? I haven’t seen many white birds about 😂

We have a lot of feathers, some white, all over our garden.
We have a sparrow hawk in the neighbourhood plus two new cats belonging to neighbours.

There's nobody there but if it gives people comfort, why not.

I ve got loads of feathers from the pigeons in my garden, got a white one on my window sill at the moment
No if there was life after death and parents were ‘looking down’ and seeing their beloved child , involved in an accident, a bad illness, losing their child etc etc ….surely those parents would be in hell not heaven. Watching awful things happening and can do nothing to help anymore that ain’t heaven in my book

Hopefully they will cover their eyes during my more intimate moments.

I find the whole idea unsettling, it has never given me comfort more a sense of continual judgement.

Shadowdancer

Hopefully they will cover their eyes during my more intimate moments.

Yes, that's what I always think! I can't imagine it being a comforting concept.

Some people find great comfort in thinking this. If it helps then that is what matters.

My grandmother and I were very close and she was in her 90s and very frail when I told her I was thinking of quitting my job to go to uni. She asked me how long a degree takes and I told her three years. I aso told her that I wanted her sitting on the front row when I went to get my diploma. She said:-

"I dont think I'll be doing it in this life child. But wherever I am I'll be watching you and I know youll make me proud."

I often think of those words but being an agnostic I find it impossible to believe that anyone really is watching me from beyond.

When my mum died in London a huge flock of swifts flew round and round her house. Inner London, not a country area. Many years ago. Since then, whenever we travel, far and wide across the globe, we always see some flying very close to us and I always say it is Mum watching us. People we don’t know have noticed because they fly right next to my head. I just tell them it is mum checking me out and laugh.

I believe in the afterlife so yes, I do believe my late husband is watching out for me and will be waiting for me when it is my time to leave this earth.

After he died so many things happened that I could write a book.

“To live in the hearts of those we leave behind, Is not to die”

Looking “down” or not, I still feel DH’s presence when I am with my AC and grandchildren.

One thing I felt very strongly when my mother died was that her work here was done and she had now gone back to her world. It seemed to make sense, whether that world was the world of memory or not I don't know. What I did get out of it was to make the best of each day I had here and not to be nasty to people or difficult unless defending my boundaries. Simple enough.

A family phrase was 'the One Above sees all' and I still retain a childish belief that my misdeeds are recorded, for future reference, possibly?

No one is watching from above or below.
I’m just happy to draw on the love I received from my parents and other loved ones who are no longer here with me.

crazyH

I saw a white feather on my drive - I didn’t pick it up or think much of it. But where did it come from? I haven’t seen many white birds about 😂

Magpie, seagull, pigeon to name a few. The bird doesn't have to be pure white to shed a white feather. I'm perfectly sure you have at least one of the aforementioned birds frequently your neighbourhood.

I firmly believe in an afterlife but I don’t think those who have died are looking down on us. Once you have died you are beyond the limits of time, which is a human concept.

RosiesMaw2

“To live in the hearts of those we leave behind, Is not to die”

Looking “down” or not, I still feel DH’s presence when I am with my AC and grandchildren.

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