You feel your body jolt forward and suddenly stop. You stumble around for a few steps as your head shakes and nausea sinks in. You bend over with your hands on your knees as you try to stabilize yourself while also not throwing up. After taking a few deep breaths your head starts to feel fine and the nausea goes away until you can finally stand upright again. As you do you look around and notice you’re surrounded by nothingness except whiteness. “Where the hell am I?” you openly ask even though you can see no one around. Out of nowhere though a glowing orb appears before you and speaks to you in a soft angelic voice, “you’re in the afterlife, welcome!”

I start to panic a bit as I try to think back to what happened. I quickly realize I don’t remember anything before being here. As panic sets in my eyes the orb speaks up again, “it’s okay there is no need to panic. I know what you are going through but it’s normal not to remember anything. I’m gonna help you remember but I’ll need you to relax first.” I start taking deep breathes again until I calm down enough to listen.

“That’s good, now let me tell you the important things. You’re John Doe an 18 year old high school student. You were a bit of a loner but had one close friend though that did not help with how poorly your high school life has been. You died on your walk home from school. As you walked along the side of the road a car lost control and ran right into you.” The orb explains a bit more about myself but mostly small stuff to help me as my memory comes back to me fully. I end up sitting down as I try to digest everything I was just told.

The orb patiently waits as I gather my thoughts until I finally speak up with the only question I truly have, “So is this it then, is this all there is to the afterlife?” I look around at the endless nothingness as the orb answers me back. “Not at all! You have been put through enough hardships in your other life so it is now time for you to enjoy yourself. See in this afterlife this whole place is your landscape to do what you want with it. This place has no bounds so whatever you want to do with it you can. Think of this place almost as a never lending lucid dream where you have full control.” I feel myself start beaming with happiness but still a bit skeptical. “So I can do anything I want here and build whatever kind of world I want?” I ask quizzically. “That’s exactly right and I am your own personal helper to make whatever you want possible. You can tell me what you want and I’ll make it come to existence.” A smile stretches across my face as I know what I want and do not want to waste any time.