How do you interpret this quote?

“the difference between the living and dead is the same difference between the ground and the sky”

i’d love to know what you guys think of this as ill be using this in my story and the reader will get to pick how they interpret it.

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They way I interpret this is when you die and go to heaven, you’re up in the sky and people are on the ground. But when you die and go to hell, you’re on the ground and people are in the sky.

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The sky excluding our inventions to fly like planes is pretty much just free, open, etc. Whereas the ground is just limited you’re just stuck there, kinda like the quote “the sky’s the limit”
How I interpret it is that when you’re living you’re free you can do whatever and when you’re dead you’re just stuck

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I take it to mean they never quite meet. The ground doesn’t touch the sky unless looking out into the distance counts but shhhhhh my interpretation and living and dead can’t touch either unless living people touch dead bodies but shhhhhh my interpretation

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thank you guys! your povs are interesting!

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Without each other we wouldn’t have a purpose. Without having a ground to stay on we couldn’t look at the sky, just like we wouldn’t be able to understand life if we didn’t know that one day will finish. They’re different but they’re necessary to exist in other to have equilibrium

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