A Unique Perspective

What if this isn't life

But an in-between?

A dimension where people don't exist

But souls do.

Billions of souls

Here to learn a lesson:

To become good.

What if we live through our "lives"

And then we die

But when we die, we wake up as someone new

Not a person, but a body to learn in.

Maybe a body in a worse lifestyle or condition

Perhaps more hungry and needy

Or richer but greedy.

We open our eyes again for the first time

in this new world...

To grow as bodies and learn as people.

But our souls grow wiser

from where they left off.

And we follow this cycle

Around and around,

Up and down...

Like a computerized language placement test

That gets harder with each question we get right,

And easier with each question we get wrong

Testing our souls and aiming to teach them.

What if we lived in this so-called

"In-Between"

Until our souls are completely pure and wholesome,

Selfless, and beautiful.

What if then

And only then

Is when we are released from this world

Perhaps hundreds of individual lives later

To be rewarded with eternal bliss.

There's no bad ending

But continuous living

Until our souls learn

What living really means

And they no longer have to live anymore.