THE GOOD PLACE

THE BEGINING

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I awoke staring deeply into a melancholy wall. Totally discarding the fact that I had no clue where I was, not that I really cared because for all I knew I could just be drunk. As soon as started to realise what was around me on the dull calming wall in front of me it said 'Welcome! Everything is fine.' Immediately that made me feel so much better. Who new these quotes actually worked I thought they were so pointless, but I guess their not.

Seconds later a man came through the door and said, "y/n come in." I steadily got up and took I a sigh of relief because I just knew good things were going to happen. As soon as I got in, I saw a dark oak desk which was centred in the middle of the room. On the characterless wall beside it stood a vast picture frame holding a slightly odd picture. It was of quite a chubby man looking all happy with himself it was quite depressing really, but who cares. Anyway I sat down at the desk. "Hello y/n, I'm Michael. How are you?" exclaimed the oldish man sitting opposite me. "I'm fine, thank you." I answered full knowing that I was not I just wanted to know where I was. So I politely asked "Umm, where am I exactly and whats going on?" Michael looked at me and said in a really calm supporting voice "you y/n are dead, you're life on earth has ended and you are now on the second phase of your existence in the universe." In my mind I was like who? what? ahh? but me being me I just answered with the shortest answer "cool." After saying millions of questions shot me in the head- How the hell did I die? I mean surely I would remember dying thats a pretty important moment in ones life. Michael surely assured me and explained everything.

If one was to have an embarrassing or traumatic death we erase it from their memory to allow a more peaceful transition. Now obviously I wanted to know so Michael proceeded to tell me. "Well as you know you care to much about people and never think about yourself, so you're probably wondering my death couldn't of been embarrassing. However, it was very traumatic. You died trying to help someone but, managed dying in the process. Whilst walking back to your car a lady near you dropped a packet of lonely gal margarita mix for one in the grocery store car park and you noticed that a long column of shopping trolleys was hurtling towards her. So you being your loving caring sell tried to save her but, managed to get killed whilst saving her."

This took me a while to process but I wasn't to bothered because at least I died being a hero. Michael continued to say that ironically the person you were trying to save was in here a minute ago. I was shocked my mouth literally fell open. I need to know who she was. "Her name was Eleanor Shellstrop." replied Michael. "The most lovely person ever. Did you know she went to Ukraine to help their civil rights, so I think you guys will get on just fine."

My next questioning being, "who was right about this place." "Hindus were a little bit right, Muslims a little bit, Jews, Christians, Buddhists. Every religion guessed about 5%. Except Doug Forgett, who was a stoner kid that lived in Calgary during the 1970s. One night he got really high on mushrooms and his best friend Randy said, what do you think happens when you die? And Doug just launched into this long monolog where he got 92% of it right we couldn't believe what we were hearing. Oh yeah that's him on the wall over there." explained Michael. "So that chubby guy who was high managed to guess what happens when you die, interesting." I rambled.

This lead me to a very important question where was I. Am I in heaven or am I in hell. I hope I'm not in hell that would be awful. Michael proceeded to tell me that it's not hell or heaven that we got told about. It's the good place or the bad place and y/n you're in the good place congratulations! You have nothing to fear.

We then both got up to have a walk around the good place, so I knew what everything looked like and to explain how everything worked. "The good place is divided into different neighbour hoods each one contains exactly 322 people, which are chosen perfectly so they can get on with each other to form a harmonic balance." So every neighbour hood had the perfect environment for its residents. Although every neighbour hood had a pizza place because everyone is obsessed with pizza, you humans can't seem to get enough of the stuff.

Michael then directed me to the way of the movie where all new residence would all get a proper introduction to the good place. It explained how everything is calculated. Every good thing you do gets added up and calculated so when you die we will be able to identify if you get into the good place or the bad place based on your over all amount of points when you die. It later explained that we all had a soul mate and that their in this very neighbour maybe even sitting directly next to you. It also said that you get your dream house. The good place was a dream.