Judgement

There is something wrong with this situation… Well, the simple fact that I died and discovered that there is something else away from eternal darkness after death can be considered quite strange but I never thought that after-life's Angels or demons or whatever those things are, would be picky when selecting souls. Is my soul really that damaged that there is no place in Heaven nor in Hell for it ?

'Uh-huuuh'

Breath in, breath out. Well, let's go back for a little bit here to explain the situation better.

Basically I died and my soul was swallowed by an vortex of light. So far things have been simple and straightforward. Well, I expected to meet God, or to be reincarnated, or, I don't know, something interesting to happen. Not even in my wildest dreams did I expect to end up in a world made up entirely out of crystal clear water.

At the beginning I tried to swim toward the surface but a strange force just wouldn't let me go. In the end I remembered that I am basically dead so dying again by getting drowned would be kinda impossible. Well, I was right about that part as I did not feel the need for oxygen whatsoever. Furthermore the water was extremely pleasant, not too hot nor too cold, just the right temperature.

Time slowly passed and other souls just like myself joined the party. One thing worth mentioning is that everyone was pretty young. From this I could formulate two hypothesis: first would be that we are divided based on our age and the second is that after death everyone returns to their former younger selves. Latter on I ended up seeing a few children and my second hypothesis was pretty much confirmed. If we were to be distributed based on age then there was no point for children to end up in the same place as the 20-30 years old group.

Well, here things get bizarre. Being underwater we could not talk. Furthermore if were to try to get close to another person, a strange force would keep us on place.

As days flew by things got extremely boring. I don't know if this place is upon a planet but there seems to be day and night circles. One thing worth mentioning is that days are about twice longer than the nights. As for how many hours a day has, it's impossible for me to measure. After what felt like ten days at the very least two interesting things happened.

First was that I realised that my body was changing. My atrophied muscles were slowly growing and a little bit of body fat appeared out of nowhere on my face taking away that Voldemort look of mine and making myself look… Normal I guess. Furthermore, after five days or so I was finally able to move my legs again. Basically I was healing. This was undoubtedly good. People around myself were also changing. Those that were obese were shrinking in size, those with deformed bodies were recuperating back to normal and there was even that one bald guy who started growing the most beautiful blonde curls I've ever seen.

Well, now let's talk about the second far more disturbing thing. At one point in time a strange blob of light the size of a fist appeared out of nowhere. It was white in colour and it was moving slowly through the water. In the end it stopped in front of a women dressed in a pair of denim short jeans with a loose white T-shirt that made her look quite provocative. Well, I know that I've spent over half my life in a hospital but I can still appreciate a beautiful women when I see one. I am not THAT abnormal.

The blob of light circled around the woman a few times and then it stopped about three or so metre away from her face. Then the most unexpected thing in the world happened: a TV popped up. Well, it was not a real TV . Instead there was this transparent white window about two by two metres just floating there. I could not see anything whatsoever on that white TV/Window but I could see that woman's face distorting in horror as she could not take her eyes away from it. A few hours passed until the windows disappeared just as sudden as it appeared.

The woman was just standing there with her arms limp and with an expression of horror mixed with regret on her face. The white blob of light that was motionless for quite a while sprang into action, turned completely red and swallowed the woman. The blob was transparent so I could see the woman waking up to reality and struggling to escape from the thing that engulfed her body. Slowly, the red blob of light started going downwards and in less than three minutes it disappeared in the distance.

Everyone, myself include, was terrified beyond belief by what happened before us. Unfortunately there was no time to catch our breath as more and more blobs started popping out. Soon there was a whole field of white TVs and people making all kind of expressions.

To make things even stranger, after the TVs disappeared some of those blobs of light turned blue, others turned green, yellow and even orange. There was even this one blob of light that turned completely black and emitted some kind of dark aura that made me shrivel in fear.

From what I've seen so far and considering the knowledge about religion that I have, this should be the so called Judgement. It is far different from what I've read about in books but there are enough similarities to put heads to tails.

At this point I was just expecting my blob of light to come and show me all my sins and decide my fate. Heave, hell, something else, no matter what it might be I shall accept it with my whole heart.

Well, long story short, there was no blob of light for me. After a while I ended up alone in the huge pool of heavenly water. A few days latter a new batch of humans came with confused expressions on their faces. Again, time passed, those that had deformed bodies were healed, blobs of light came by, judged everyone and dragged their souls away… Except my soul, of course.

After 27 cycles like the ones mentioned before, here we are, in present, with another batch of humans waiting for the strange blobs of light to come and pick them up.

Furthermore I am bored out of my mind. Floating around for close to a year worth of time is something I never thought I could endure. But here we are and, from the looks of it, nothing special is going to happen this cycle either.

Again… The same old story is about to happen… Again… To be honest, at this point I don't care if what awaits me is Heaven or Hell, all I want is for something interesting to happen. As it was scripted, blobs of light can be seen in the distance descending towards our position. Slowly, they made their way towards us and…

'Huuhhhh'

There is no point in even thinking about this anymore. Closing my eyes I try to relax and forget about everything. In the past year or so I've been trying to sleep over and over again but, no matter what I try, nothing happens. There was even this one time when I counted to 50.000 and I still was unable to fall asleep.

Well, I presume that watching strange blobs swallowing humans and then dragging them away towards their 'lair' where they are going to consume them one by one can be considered an interesting movie plot.

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O.K.

What the hell is happening?

Around my body there are over a hundred blobs of light circling me without getting to close. If I were to approximate then I would say that they are ten metres or so away from my body. Looking around I can see that every single human is looking at me with confused faces.

Hey! I am as confused as you are! Does the fact that those blobs are finally approaching me mean that it's time for my Judgement?

'Thump…Thump…Thump'

My hearth beat is growing stronger by the minute. I am excited. At this point I don't even care why there are so many blobs orbiting around myself. At the very least this is interesting.

'Hah!'

A blinding golden light fills the world. It is so bright that my eyes close by instinct. A warm feeling washes my body and a soft voice, the first sound I've heard in over a year, finally wakes me up back to reality.

'Thump…Thump…Thump…Thump…Thump'

My hearth beet goes out of control. Well, I can't be blamed considering that soon I shall face my own Judgement. I am not afraid of what I might see, I am only excited of finally knowing the one thing I lacked in the past… A future!