SMiLE
what happens to all the fictional characters in movies, books, TV series, and in our minds? do they continue living their mundane lives after being highlighted in their respective stories? or do they stay frozen in the final frame of their respective story-telling medium? at the end of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. when the gang leaves their apartment for the last time, do their lives move on or does their story end at the frozen frame of their empty apartment until the end of time? and whatever happened to Joey in his failed spin-off comedy? when he got canceled, did his life in Hollywood literally got canceled or did he finally made it and got a Golden Globe? or did he somehow got reincarnated in another life called Episodes?
i don't know whether to believe in heaven or hell, let alone the afterlife. when i reach the last pages of my story, is my consciousness going to be frozen in my deathbed or will i be taking a trip to somewhere else? what is somewhere else, if not fiction? when science is the ultimate nail in the coffin to religion, what else is there to believe but what you perceive up to the moment you die? will i really be taking that eternal sleep or will i feel every single cell in my body slowly disintegrate and become dust?
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i'm not being a nihilist, and i certainly don't believe that getting into the afterlife requires some kind of membership to a collective. one can't help but feel like there really isn't any meaning to life if one isn't purpose driven, but what happens to the people who do not believe, yet do so much more for the goodness of his/her species rather than being martyrs? don't they deserve that better place just as much as those that belong in the collective?
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