Life is weird, one moment you're living the worst day in your life and next you're with this brilliant therapist that let you talk about every problem you had from your childhood.
" Alright, now can you speak about yesterday, I believe after that we can conclude our session for now." My doctor tells me softly.
I started to talk about the single worst day I had so far.
"Okay, this is my worst day ever. First my alarm decided that I should be late to my work, traffic was terrible and I got late to work, this of course caused my boss to be very vocal about being on time after he arrived during the lunch.
I didn't have time to eat breakfast thanks to being late and my lunch was disrupted thanks to my boss lecturing me for the duration of the lunch.
I am running on caffeine here, thus I wasn't on my best mood when this 'Regular Criminal-1' tried to rob me.
Key word tried, I am disabled, my spine and right leg are messed up and I have chronic pain which is annoying enough to bother me but not bad enough to be on pain meds.
That means I look like a easy target to pick I handled robbers before.
So, due to being disabled I took self defense classes and I totally wrecked this guy who only knew how to swing his knife, maybe a little more than I should have, sure robber's knife cut me but I endured worse pains.
This transitioned into me being held up by cops for an hour or two while I was in the ER getting some stitches, they took some witness reports and asked me some questions and told me that they will be contacting me about the follow up.
By the time I arrived at my house I was beyond my line of tolerance and on top of that I came home to find that my home happened to be up in flames thanks to my shitty neighbor being a terrible parent and their children starting a fire like, if you can't do a decent job of being a parent get some help or whatever..."
"Mr. Walker, you're getting off topic." My doctor kindly reminded me, man this psychiatrist is the best...
Actually this is the first psychiatrist I have ever talked to.
"Ah, sorry it's just that it gets me mad whenever I see people being a bad parent" It reminds me of mine...
"Ah yes you've talked about your parents being neglectful on some matters early on this session, it's understandable but let's continue what happened after you saw your house burning"
"What happened is that I kinda lost it thanks to the whole pressure of the day coming down, like I have been in a bad mood all day and this on top was the last drop so, I started to run and didn't look where I was going thus gotten hit by a unseen truck because caffeine was wearing off... HOLD THE FUCK UP I AM DEAD!" I jumped out of the couch and I glared at the 'doctor'
"Indeed you are, now let's calm down this is all a part of transition to afterlife"
I have been talking with this guy for hours, he knows every embarrassing shit I've done, every problem I had and now that I look at it, he let me review my life from an objective point of view, I can totally see this happening after all memory of getting ran over is still fresh.
Sighing I sat back down I asked the 'Doctor' "So, what now?"
"Now there's a question I want you to answer, do you think you deserve a second chance?"
What kind of useless question is that everyone is going to say yes unless they're tired of living and they would have at least one legit reason for it or if they're told they're going to hell.
"What are the conditions though?" I ask, conditions are important. It would be really messed up if you got send into some country with civil war but you're not allowed to kill anything.
"First of all you can't go back to your previous world before the date of your death so if you choose your old world you're going to be born after your death date to prevent paradoxes."
"That's fair, no one likes a time paradox"
"Second, if you choose to be born in another world it will be of my choice and if you have accumulated enough karma you will get a fitting power that fits to one of your sub-conscious desires, of course the choices will be made by me but be assured that I won't put people into dangerous places without giving them a way to defend themselves."
"I have to admit it's a rabbit hole but I can see people taking it, like there would be adventurous people who wants to go see another world or bored people like me."
"In summary you can go back to your old world as a baby with your memories or let me send you into a random adventure. Well, unless you end up in some world during it's peaceful times I do not know"
"and you're asking if I deserve this?" With his nod I began thinking even being reincarnated with my memories is a giant plus that would let me live my life in relative ease let alone the random choice he presented.
Do I really deserve this, not like I did anything good in my life other that giving out donations and I doubt that really earned me any good karma and considering my religious stand that this guy didn't exist for me until this morning, things doesn't look good...
"Just asking, what would happen to me if I didn't deserve this?"
"Well I can't really reveal your sins and such but you would indeed go to heaven or hell which ever afterlife you have earned."
"Then, I let's say I deserve a second chance but is it really up to me?"
"Sorry, it's really not, I was just curious, the after life is kinda backlogged thanks to a certain angel not doing their jobs properly.
Also author wanted to have 1K+ words in the first chapter so, it kinda got like this"
"That's stupid why can't you change it, also who's author?" I was so into this fake consulting that I insulted the God.
"Well I could but where's the fun if I intervened" He ignored the author part!
"What do you mean, what about prophets, religion and..." As I was speaking he made a hush gesture.
"Everyone has that kind of phase, we don't talk about it but indeed you're right I can change it and my creations should not be responsible for the delay on afterlife, so I am giving you a chance, choose now.
What's it going to be, the normal world you lived your entire life or random world among the whole multiverse with a power on the side"
I am not going back to the that world global warming would get to humanity before I grew up things were bad there and he did say he would give me a fighting chance in the random world so it doesn't matter where I end up, let's hope it's not going to be terrible world.
"Don't worry too much, worlds are based on your karma as well, since you're pretty balanced at worst you would end up in GTA or something similar"
I shivered, GTA is the worst place for a civilian who only knows self defense, maybe I could get cheat codes if I end up there.
"Even if I reincarnate what am I going to do in my previous world like I've been there and it's going in a pretty bad road if you compare it to the possibilities of the multiverse but even then what am I going to do in a fantasy world?"
"Well, isn't that the question of life but it's clear that you want the second option.
You seemed like traveling while you were alive try doing that or pick up some hobbies if you can, try to live a good life."
Doctor or God snapped his finger and I was shrouded in darkness it felt familiar and warm.
"I will do you a solid and skip the birth and the initial babyhood thing let's hope we won't meet too soon.
Let's see what kinda power you got... FUCK! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN, MICHAEL YOU WORTHLESS PIGEON HOW DID YOU MANAGED TO..."
I lost myself to embrace of the abyss before hearing the rest. Let's hope whatever happened there would benefit me.