Author's note: No, I am not crazy. Just got stuck on a cool show, and the idea and imagination behind it. It's called "Dead Like Me". Used to be a show on Showtime. Basic premise is about "undead" people who reap souls. When someone is about to die, the reaper is in charge of taking the person's soul, preferably before they die. This blog entry is just based on imagination running through my head with a non-sensical "what if" type thought process. Read on if you are open-minded and imaginative.
If we were "reapers"...
What if I died. And despite anything I have ever seen, heard, or believed about the "after-life", I find out my destiny, my "job", after death, was to reap peoples souls. Creepy huh? But also interesting.
Just think of all the things I would see, and learn. So many ways to grow. So much more knowledge to absorb. And a chance to help those moving from this world to where-ever people do "go" when they die.
I pause for a moment here to smile at how many of you will probably say I'm going looney, talking all this bullshit. But what if? I'm just saying what will it hurt to just expand your view for a bit and open your mind to just simply imagine the ways things might be, so totaly different from whatever mainstream or family-based beliefs we have lived with all our lives. Just think for a minute, what if everything we have ever thought about things like Life, Death, Destiny, Karma, etc., all turn out to be real, but in a different form then we may have ever conceived possible before. Just stretch your mind for a minute to consider it. Sorry if I lost any of you through this rant, just a thought I had.
Anyway, it interests my mind. Would I try to save someone from their appointment with Death? Would I choose to go against the supposed balance of the cycle of life and death? Would I just do my job, or would I actually give two shits enough to stop and observe, and actually care?
And if I did think I should decide to let some people stay, by helping save them from their appointment with Death, how would that be ok? Let some stay and live on, and yet send others on their way to whereever they are bound? I just don't know.
I am a very caring person now, in this existence we often call "living", or Life. But what if my time came, my number was called, my term was up, my vacation was over? Basically I kicked the bucket, even though I wasn't ready for this "life" to be over. How would I react? Would I still be a caring soul, or would I just exist, in whatever form chosen for me in the next stage?
In the show, Georgia's first "reaping" is of a little 5 or 6 year old girl on a train. She can't complete the task at first, but Rueb (the boss/ manager/ supervisor) helps her see how she can't just decide to alter the outcome of what is already set in motion. Now could you imagine having to reap the soul from a little child? I don't know if I could do it. But maybe they are going to a better place. Maybe not because "God wanted another little angel in heaven to love" bullshit, but maybe because they have a purpose somehow somewhere, beyond what we might be able to grasp at our current living state of thinking.
'Life is short, but death is forever' I once heard from an old man's wise lips. What exactly does that mean though? Do we continue to have purposes and destiny written for us on throug time and eternity? It is crazy things I am speaking, I know, but all simply a whimsical imaginative 'what if?'.
Maybe I think to much about non-sensical, unconventional things. I know all these thougts came from watching a silly TV show, simple fiction, a writer's idea that blossomed into a possible money-making entertainment avenue, but it that doesn't make the thoughts any less valid, or possible to conceive.
Just think, for a minute, if you have an open inquisitive mind, "What would it be like?"
...if we were reapers...
