‘Maybe this is what it is to be dead. Floating around in the darkness for an infinite time. ‘, I thought. I have been floating in this darkness for some years now. You all might think, how do I know? It’s easy. If you count the seconds that you have spent, it is easy to know how much time you have spent in such places, where time cannot be perceived. Counting ain’t that hard.
One minute has sixty seconds and one hour has sixty minutes. So in one hour there are three thousand six hundred seconds. And in a day, there are twenty-four hours. If you do the maths, it means Eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds a day. A year has three hundred and sixty-five days, so the number of seconds a year has been thirty-one million five hundred thirty-six thousand. And this is the seconds in a year. I have spent nearly four years in this dark world. So, you might understand the astronomical figure.
‘Maybe this is the
Some unknown force sucked my soul inside a space crack. It was like I became unconscious when I was getting sucked, because I don’t remember what happened when I got sucked into the space crack. When I was conscious, I laid on the ground. There was sand and I could feel my body for the first time in eleven years as a soul. I touched my body.I was excited, but that’s when the same church bell like sound came from the front. This was the first time I noticed my surroundings. It was like I was in some sort of palace. It was weird and had settings similar to that of a haunted house. The palace was at the centre of a sea, and to reach the centre ; There was a path that passed on top of the water surface.The place where I woke up was at the far end of the path to the palace. I was curious about the existence of this palace, so I walked towards it. Wind howled as I stepped towards the palace; the sea, which was calm at first,
“Chitragupta... I’ve heard this name. Isn’t it a Hindu mythological character? “, I pondered. Chitragupta smiled and said, “ Yeah, I am the same one you thought of.” With a sigh, I thought in my heart, ‘So is this hell? I really came to hell. ‘Chitragupta chuckled and said, “No.. This isn’t hell. Believe me, if you were in hell, we might torture as soon as you entered. But you aren’t.. “ It surprised me, not because of what Chitragupta had said, but because I never spoke out loud. So how come he answered me? That’s weird. I dropped the idea of asking him how he knew what I thought.But it seemed like Chitragupta had already known what I was thinking. He said with a sagely smile, “It’s because I am manasaputra of the creator of this world, Lord Brahma. You might know him? Right? “ I nodded, because I have heard of this name. When this nam
Lord Yama laughed out loud, when he looked at my frightened look. Still petting the dogs, he raised one of his weapons, Noose, and brought it near his right shoulder. Then he did something I least expected. He started scratching his shoulders with a deadly weapon. This even made me doubt the life of gods and mortals.While he started laughing and said, “Don’t look at me like that. I am not some demon who would gobble you up. “ As soon as he said those words, the dogs sitting calmly beside the throne growled while looking at me. Lord Yama looked serious, and he said in a serious tone, “But I can’t tell about these two.. They might as well eat you. Hahaha.. “ Then he started laughing out loud like a maniac. I didn’t even find that funny. How the f*ck did this guy thought it was funny.Even the book holding assistant of Lord Yama, Chitragupta, didn’t find those words funny. He just shook
“This.”, I said, while looking at what was before me. Not because I wanted to, but because no other words came out of my mouth.After we shook our hands, Lord Yama brought me together with Chitragupta, to the reincarnation tunnel. I thought it might be something like a tunnel, but it wasn’t like anything I thought. It looked like a water slide. Yeah, you heard me right. It was indeed like a water slide. There was a slide, by which we had to slide down to our locations.It was indeed as childish as I had said. There was an indicator that separated male and female souls for reincarnation.Yama made me slide down to the indicator where I got separated from the line of souls on the slide and thrown in a separate path of male souls.Meanwhile, female souls got picked up by some kind of invisible force and placed down like princesses. Lord Yama was indeed a little too much. I mean, I understand if you like
It’s true when people say that time passes quickly. I felt like I was just born, but I grew up from a day year old boy to a year old boy. I could understand what other said, but unfortunately I can’t speak properly. Except Baa-Baa, Boo-Boo. This was the only thing that made me similar to all these kids around me. Although I am a kid now, but I have to say that kids are weird and disgusting. You might think the same if you were to be where I am...Five kids surrounded me. Each of them was between a year to eight months old, three boys and Two girls. And I have to say that boys are more disgusting than girls. And no! It isn’t because they are girls. I didn’t call them disgusting. But because they weren’t. A fat guy sitting beside me sneezed suddenly and his snot was about to fall on my new clothes. Thankfully, I evaded his snot attack. Yeah, it is weird..Today is my first birthday in this world. Although
Time skip - Four years..I sat up on the bed and looked out of the window. The bright sunlight falling on my face was enough for the drowsiness to go away. I yawned and got out if the bed. Then, I went straight to the washroom. After washing up, I got out of my room and walked to the living room. My father was tapping on a computer like device, but a high-end version. Casting a glance, I understood he was working. My dad is an accountant.Even though my dad is an accountant, we are rich. Because my father got an inheritance from his parents after their death. I know little about my mother’s side. I met none of the family other than my aunt. So my family in this world comprising three people: my mom, my aunt and my father. My mother is a housewife. She takes care of me, my father and my aunt.Today is my fifth birthday. Although it is my birthday today, there aren’t the decorations or organisations going on. The re
The situation in the class wasn’t favourable to me. Why? Ever heard about bullies? Although they didn’t bully me, but they knew how to make my life difficult. They would do pranks on me, or do something that would cause me getting punished by the teacher.Several years later..Like every other day, I got dressed up and walked out of the house, not before grabbing the toast on the dining table. Obviously, I applied butter and rushed out of the house because the bus driver was honking the horn. The bus was noisy because of all those children shouting and singing like they were going to a picnic.Our class teacher was obviously not the same as before. Now our class teacher was an evil-looking lady named Ms. Morris. But the point isn’t that she is evil, she hates me the most... No , not the most; probably I would rank second on the list of people she hates. The person she hates the most is none other than Ms. Su
By the time James came back to his senses, Ms. Morris had already arrived with her younger brother, Mick. Her face was red in anger, and a sneer on her mouth. I suddenly had an awful premonition. Feeling weird in my heart, I ignored her and directly entered the class along with the group.I sat at my bench. Mia sat beside me; while the other two, Nathan and James, sat behind us. We all stood up and wished Ms. Morris, as soon as she entered the class, followed by a smirking Mick. She had her eyes on me and the group for most of the time.She motioned everyone to sit down, so we all sat down. Just as I was about to sit, she said, “Not you Mike. “ I paused midway and stood straight and asked, “Why? “ When she heard this, she sneered and said, “Is this the way your parents taught you to talk to your teachers? “Shaking my head, I said, “My parents taught me - respect those who respect you