Not one person has ever come back from the afterlife and told you what it’s like. Not one person has died, been funeralized, and buried, then came back and gave you the details of the next steps. Not one person has brought you a souvenir or a picture or a t-shirt from the trip they took after departing this realm here.
You have an idea of what happens after this. You have a faith in what happens after this. You have a hope for what happens after this.
Be it heaven or hell. Be it spiritually everlasting life, or perpetual purgatory. Be it a glorious reunion of you and others that have transitioned before you. Be it a new world, dimension, universe. Or be it nothing.
Not one of us knows.
We want to know. We’re taught and told that we know. We imagine and fantasize and dream about what is next. We anticipate and angst over what might be next. We subscribe to belief and faith systems, congregations, groups, organizations, and people, that all supply us with a theory of what is next.
We buy into those theories. We build lives and lifestyles, ideas and programs, communities, systems, classes, institutions, laws, governments, societies, perceptions, mindsets, fears, traditions, cultures, civilizations, and much more on the theories.
We fight wars. We destroy lives. We hurt one another. We kill one another. We enslave and exile. We punish. We separate. We divide. We guilt and we shame. All because of these theories.
Meanwhile, far too many of us have and many of us will, die, without ever actually LIVING.
Because we subscribe to those theories.
You are here. Now.
You need to live. Now.
You are doing yourself no good justice nor any reasonable purpose by sacrificing the power of who you are, for the sake of only buying into the way things have been.
You have this life! You should live this life! To your fullest. In cooperation and connection with others. Intentionally and deliberately with an action-course of authentic and consistent experimentation of what possibility and impossibility might become FOR YOU!
You have no inherent right to suffering and lack. You don’t deserve poverty or pain. You are not doomed to despair and detriment.
You experience these things because you perceive that you have to. Because you have bought into the notion that those theories have programmed into you. And at some point you’ve decided that what happens after this is somehow more significant than what is now.
YOU ARE HERE NOW.
LIVE NOW.
Why aren’t you doing the thing that you believe and even know is the thing that you should be doing? The thing that you want to do. The thing that will give you purpose and fulfillment doing. The thing that will quite possibly support and provide for you beyond the hapless struggling and futile settlement of mundane/mediocre existence that you’ve participated in for most of your life.
You are here because you are supposed to be here. You are to realize the potential of who your best self can be. You are here, and you matter! You are important. You are necessary.
You will find out what happens after this when you get there. Right now, you need to be doing the best for here.
It’s time.
-see
©️2023 Cornelious “See” Flowers
@seethepoet
