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This Short Story About Life, Death and the Universe Will Blow Your Mind

by Mateo Sol ยท Updated: Dec 26, 2020 ยท 37 Comments

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The Egg

By: Andy Weir

You were on your way home when you died.

It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.

And thatโ€™s when you met me.

โ€œWhatโ€ฆ what happened?โ€ You asked. โ€œWhere am I?โ€

โ€œYou died,โ€ I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.

โ€œThere was aโ€ฆ a truck and it was skiddingโ€ฆโ€

โ€œYup,โ€ I said.

โ€œIโ€ฆ I died?โ€

โ€œYup. But donโ€™t feel bad about it. Everyone dies,โ€ I said.

You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. โ€œWhat is this place?โ€ You asked. โ€œIs this the afterlife?โ€

โ€œMore or less,โ€ I said.

โ€œAre you god?โ€ You asked.

โ€œYup,โ€ I replied. โ€œIโ€™m God.โ€

โ€œMy kidsโ€ฆ my wife,โ€ you said.


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โ€œWhat about them?โ€

โ€œWill they be all right?โ€

โ€œThatโ€™s what I like to see,โ€ I said. โ€œYou just died and your main concern is for your family. Thatโ€™s good stuff right there.โ€

You looked at me with fascination. To you, I didnโ€™t look like God. I just looked like some man. Or possibly a woman. Some vague authority figure, maybe. More of a grammar school teacher than the almighty.

โ€œDonโ€™t worry,โ€ I said. โ€œTheyโ€™ll be fine. Your kids will remember you as perfect in every way. They didnโ€™t have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly relieved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If itโ€™s any consolation, sheโ€™ll feel very guilty for feeling relieved.โ€

โ€œOh,โ€ you said. โ€œSo what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell or something?โ€

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โ€œNeither,โ€ I said. โ€œYouโ€™ll be reincarnated.โ€

โ€œAh,โ€ you said. โ€œSo the Hindus were right,โ€

โ€œAll religions are right in their own way,โ€ I said. โ€œWalk with me.โ€

You followed along as we strode through the void. โ€œWhere are we going?โ€

โ€œNowhere in particular,โ€ I said. โ€œItโ€™s just nice to walk while we talk.โ€

โ€œSo whatโ€™s the point, then?โ€ You asked. โ€œWhen I get reborn, Iโ€™ll just be a blank slate, right? A baby. So all my experiences and everything I did in this life wonโ€™t matter.โ€

โ€œNot so!โ€ I said. โ€œYou have within you all the knowledge and experiences of all your past lives. You just donโ€™t remember them right now.โ€

I stopped walking and took you by the shoulders. โ€œYour soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. Itโ€™s like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if itโ€™s hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, youโ€™ve gained all the experiences it had.

โ€œYouโ€™ve been in a human for the last 48 years, so you havenโ€™t stretched out yet and felt the rest of your immense consciousness. If we hung out here for long enough, youโ€™d start remembering everything. But thereโ€™s no point to doing that between each life.โ€


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โ€œHow many times have I been reincarnated, then?โ€

โ€œOh lots. Lots and lots. An in to lots of different lives.โ€ I said. โ€œThis time around, youโ€™ll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD.โ€

โ€œWait, what?โ€ You stammered. โ€œYouโ€™re sending me back in time?โ€

โ€œWell, I guess technically. Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe. Things are different where I come from.โ€

โ€œWhere you come from?โ€ You said.

โ€œOh sure,โ€ I explained โ€œI come from somewhere. Somewhere else. And there are others like me. I know youโ€™ll want to know what itโ€™s like there, but honestly you wouldnโ€™t understand.โ€

โ€œOh,โ€ you said, a little let down. โ€œBut wait. If I get reincarnated to other places in time, I could have interacted with myself at some point.โ€

โ€œSure. Happens all the time. And with both lives only aware of their own lifespan you donโ€™t even know itโ€™s happening.โ€

โ€œSo whatโ€™s the point of it all?โ€

โ€œSeriously?โ€ I asked. โ€œSeriously? Youโ€™re asking me for the meaning of life? Isnโ€™t that a little stereotypical?โ€

โ€œWell itโ€™s a reasonable question,โ€ you persisted.

I looked you in the eye. โ€œThe meaning of life, the reason I made this whole universe, is for you to mature.โ€

โ€œYou mean mankind? You want us to mature?โ€

โ€œNo, just you. I made this whole universe for you. With each new life you grow and mature and become a larger and greater intellect.โ€

โ€œJust me? What about everyone else?โ€

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โ€œThere is no one else,โ€ I said. โ€œIn this universe, thereโ€™s just you and me.โ€

You stared blankly at me. โ€œBut all the people on earthโ€ฆโ€

โ€œAll you. Different incarnations of you.โ€

โ€œWait. Iโ€™m everyone!?โ€

โ€œNow youโ€™re getting it,โ€ I said, with a congratulatory slap on the back.

โ€œIโ€™m every human being who ever lived?โ€

โ€œOr who will ever live, yes.โ€

โ€œIโ€™m Abraham Lincoln?โ€

โ€œAnd youโ€™re John Wilkes Booth, too,โ€ I added.

โ€œIโ€™m Hitler?โ€ You said, appalled.

โ€œAnd youโ€™re the millions he killed.โ€

โ€œIโ€™m Jesus?โ€

โ€œAnd youโ€™re everyone who followed him.โ€

You fell silent.

โ€œEvery time you victimized someone,โ€ I said, โ€œyou were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness youโ€™ve done, youโ€™ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.โ€

You thought for a long time.

โ€œWhy?โ€ You asked me. โ€œWhy do all this?โ€

โ€œBecause someday, you will become like me. Because thatโ€™s what you are. Youโ€™re one of my kind. Youโ€™re my child.โ€

โ€œWhoa,โ€ you said, incredulous. โ€œYou mean Iโ€™m a god?โ€

โ€œNo. Not yet. Youโ€™re a fetus. Youโ€™re still growing. Once youโ€™ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born.โ€

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โ€œSo the whole universe,โ€ you said, โ€œitโ€™s justโ€ฆโ€

โ€œAn egg.โ€ I answered. โ€œNow itโ€™s time for you to move on to your next life.โ€

And I sent you on your way.


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  1. Gabby says

    November 24, 2023 at 2:21 am

    What a bummer. Don’t wanna reincarnate again after this life. It’s cruel also to forget all of it after living.

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    • Georgia says

      August 10, 2024 at 7:05 pm

      Same ๐Ÿ˜…

      Reply
  2. Julie says

    June 06, 2022 at 12:19 am

    My husband passed away recently of congestive heart failure. Our relationship was tenuous, difficult and complicated at the very least. We both brought enough baggage into our marriage for two trips around the world. This story offered me hope that we might find forgivness for each other, and that the regret I feel for not being a better partner can also be a lesson. It helped me to remember that we, the universe, are all one.
    Just one!

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  3. Cathy says

    April 24, 2021 at 8:05 am

    I have metastatic bone cancer and nearing the end, not fearful but curious about what happens when the soul leaves the body!
    I want to share a strange but beautiful thing when my mother died and my sister called me at work to tell me momโ€™s gone! I said โ€œ where she go to Rumfordโ€ she said no Cathy mom is gone! Then I got it as she had terminal cancer that had meta sized like what I am experiencing. I left work crying all the way to my parents home to find my 3 sisters and atheist brother law all sitting around my father and no one saying anything and I was the only one crying out of control ! I had the urge to hold my mother and pull the sheet off her face so I could be close to her cans like a sneaking child I ran over and pulled the sheet down crying uncontrollable and holding her close to me when my father gently came over pulling me off her and covering her, his voice was gentle and I could feel the hurt he felt for me as soon as he stood me up a phenomenon happened as I suddenly was calm but the room her body was in and the entire home took on this orange glow that was penetrating a warmth I never experienced before !! No one said a thing and minutes later I left not thinking about what I experienced, then about 1 year later my sister whoโ€™s husband is atheist and she is the only sister I close to brought up the night our mother died and how hysterical I was then she said โ€œ you know Bill does not believe in god but after seeing the orange glow and feeling the comforting warmth that came with it, he is not sure what he believes!
    I told her I can not believe you experienced what I did, but yes she did. .
    It was the most beautiful experience and wonder if it was my motherโ€™s spirit comforting her daughter or a angel.
    Does anyone have thoughts on this or have experienced something similar to this?

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    • Aletheia Luna says

      April 24, 2021 at 2:17 pm

      This is just beautiful and awe-inspiring, Cathy, thank you so much for sharing. I can’t say what the orange glow was, but it was definitely special and significant. If I was in that situation, I would have interpreted it as your mother’s soul illuminating the room. There are so many mysteries we’re not aware of. Death is the greatest mystery and adventure of all. Sending so much love for a peaceful and joy-filled passing

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    • Carole says

      July 25, 2021 at 3:52 am

      I’ve worked with colours for a long time now, and the first thing comes to mind when I see orange with someone, is wisdom. My first response would be to explain the obvious, you have to mix red with yellow to make orange. I would explain what those individual colours mean to me, ( red is love yellow is upliftment ), you’ve already worked that out, Comforting Warmth you said.
      My first question is, does this person need some words of wisdom, or, have they got wisdom to share ? Usually I would conjure an image of a beautiful orange sunrise, I’d then the same with an image of an orange sunset. I would take notice of which of those images I was most drawn to, to answer my question. You’ve told me it’s a sunset (death ), which tells me, you have wisdom to share.
      Before you ask me what it is, who’s it for, I don’t know, it’s not my business, they gave you the colour, I’m jus an interpreter. So, now you know you have wise words to share, whether it’s for a specific individual or the world I can’t tell you.
      I hope that offers a bit of insight, if you would like a bit more I would go so far as to suggest, that the experience you had is what I would call undeniable proof that spirit world exists. I got my own proof a long time ago, my experience comes in handy with the sceptics. You had a sceptic in the room with you, and it sounds a bit like spirit world managed to get a foot through Bill’s proverbial door. Definitely sounds like spirit world, two for one, a worker and a sceptic at the same time. I hope my explanation encourages you to go further, and expand on the unconscious messages you receive.

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  4. Andrรฉs Durรกn says

    September 29, 2020 at 9:18 am

    is 8:17 pm and i can tell you this story divided my life on two parts thanks

    Reply
  5. Mariza says

    August 18, 2020 at 10:02 am

    I got goosebumps all over my body and I surprisingly started crying. Not little hiccups but the raw loud kind of sobs that rack your whole body. It happened when I started to read the part about the soul being beautiful and gigantic. I haven’t stopped since.

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