I agree that many people have blown it out of proportion, but even I find it somewhat infuriating that obvious kisses have not been televised, and then I laugh it off, and consider the overall drama. It's beautiful, and it's funny (sometimes in one of those awww, how cute ways), and it's good. I personally am greatly appreciative for the small taste of heaven that we are allowed access to, but am a little spiritually aggravated when I'm turned away at the gate just when I arrive.
This doesn't mean that I am disrespectful or ungrateful of the opportunity to visit heaven at all. I am deeply appreciative. I just would like to see more. And this dancing around the outskirts is intriguing, engaging, fun, and blissful.... but there's always a part of me that is attempting to peer down golden roads and through crystal arches. And every time I look, I keep getting caught by the guardians who just shake their heads at me and urge me to move on.
So I can understand both sides. I understand the painful distancing of self from the blissful center. And indeed, the first truth of the Eight is that Life is Suffering. Impatience must yield to compassion and understanding before the next circle is reached.... and in the end, the winding labyrinth takes us through a beautiful voyage of self discovery. The longest distance between two points is a double spiral, but when the straight line is so apparent, and visible, it is so tempting to demand it.
