Although I'm atheist, I still believe in Something, much like Augustus Waters from The Fault in Our Stars. A spirit is too strong, too powerful to just vanish into nothing. I've thought over this through many lazy afternoons and countless hours of sleepless nights, and I've decided that there can't just be nothing after a person dies. Imagine a conscience that has been thinking, feeling, wondering about this, just suddenly goes blank for the rest of eternity. Unthinking, unfeeling, never to be a mind of a person- or anything for that matter- ever again. It just doesn't seem possible, doesn't seem right. Either there's some kind of afterlife, be it below Earth in the Underworld, above Earth in Heaven, or on Earth as ghosts. Either the spirit lives on, or it is reincarnated into a new body, a new life, thinking and feeling again, projecting its thoughts outward in some form of communication.
This is also to comfort myself. I fear oblivion, yes, but what I fear more is that I will die, unknown to the greater world, and go nowhere; that I will lay forever in my casket, rotting, never to have consciousness again. I know that my own little world will remember me, my family, my friends... but for how long? Human mind tend to forget things, and I fear THAT ONE DAY when there is no one left to remember me, either because I have faded from memory, or there is no one left to remember; and on that day I will become nothing. I only hope that my spirit will still be around to witness that day...
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I recently learned that this means I'm agnostic, believing in something other than the established God/gods.
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