It was once so dark....
It was so bleak that anyone would have given up already.
But I continued on.
For what?
I tell myself I don't know..... But, inside I knew. I knew what kept me going, it was my determination to never give up and to see it through to the end! TO SEE IF HARD WORK COULD GET ME WHAT I WANT
GET ME WHAT I SO DESIRED
GET ME WHAT BELONGED TO ME
However, despite my arduous efforts, all I ended up with was betrayal and disappointment over and OVER AGAIN!
Why, WHy, WHY!
Is it because of what I had done? Or is it because of my greed?
Questions kept coming, but no answers appeared. Instead, all I got was regret and self-blame.
All of a sudden, everything started shaking, everything started moving so fast then...
A blinding light shined.
"Have you come to your senses?" Said a unknown being. It's face not clear to me yet. As I started to adjust to the sudden blast of light, I wondered and subconsciously asked " Where am I ?"
"You are at where we call it the high sky and I like to call it my office, or where people where you come from call it heaven."
"What? Am I being hallucinating after being kidnapped by some cultist group?"
With a bemused expression, the unknown being looked at me and said " Well we are kind of similar to what they do but we are the ethical and positive version of it."
This made me somehow even more confused and even a little afraid. Are they going to steal my organs and sacrifice me too?
But before my thoughts got more crazy, the unknown being said" well enough of that, I was just kidding... slightly but more on the part about being similar to a cult. However, you are actually dead and I brought here because of an extremely mission."
Hearing the news made me shocked yet glad. I was also curious and asked "what mission?"
The unknown being said" TO save humanity and exterminate the evil forces encroaching upon a starved and hopeless world!" With a determined tone. This made me so excited! This is what I have dreamed of all my life all those nights of imagining what would my life be like those other stories and fantasy novels.
But all of a sudden the unknown being said " Just kidding! Hahaha, by the look on your face you actually believed me. No, thats not the real reason, I brought you here because of a mistake on our part."
Looking like I got a million dollars stolen from me, I felt frustrated yet curious about what it was saying. So I asked " what mistake?"
Sounding slightly embarrassed the unknown being said " well... have you always wondered why you were always so unlucky and hated by every one you meet? "
I said " yea, all my life i was always bullied and ostracised. I was also always tripping over stuff and having random bad stuff happen to me." Just like this time when I was suddenly kidnapped by people thinking I was the son of a rich man, and then on the way to their hideout they realised they got the wrong person.
And when I thought it could not get even worse, I heard police sirens and I thought I would be saved but when they came, the kidnappers suddenly let me go and I thought they were scared of the police. But when the police bursted through the door, all eyes suddenly locked on me, and before I could say anything they shouted at me and rushed me while saying we caught you- you kidnapping bastard! I tried to clear my name, but it was futile. And only when they checked my id then they realised they also caught the wrong person, and the kidnappers had deliberately let me go because I looked ugly and they subconsciously hated me for no reason so they thought that it would be good to frame me.
This made me so frustrated at my life, and this is does not include the numerous times I got robbed, and stepped in every dog or animal manure in the area. I also got pooped on by every single bird I come across.
The unknown being then suddenly dropped a bomb " Umm the reason why all of that happened was probably because one of our punisher, accidentally punished the wrong soul mistaking you as someone who had committed numerous crimes and had killed so many people that it was remembered by everyone till this day, and in the end he just committed chose death over being captured and punished by doing it himself in his safe house.
Looking at the the unknown being, my jaw was on the ground, and all of a sudden I had a sudden urge of wanting to shout and commit heinous acts upon the person who did this to me. Allowing them to experience a 1000 years of pain.
But the unknown being said " that's why.... TADA you have won the chance to pick what you would like for your next life to be like" in a uplifting tone.
And despite my urge to take revenge on that punisher , I seriously considered what I would like to do in my next life.....