Waiting Room

So, we waiting for what?

Excuse me?

So you sittin' here telling me, this place is a waiting room, right? What are we waiting for?

Rebirth

Rebirth? Like reincarnation?

If that's what you wanna call it

What the ** you mean "if that's what I wanna call it?" either this is what it is

Or this is what it ain't

Sure

Chu mean? Ughhh, this muhfucka

Aight, lemme get this straight, every time I die

I come here, we talk, and you send me back to earth to be reborn?

You know the last time we had this conversation it was in mandarin and you were 13

Mandarin?

And a girl!

What? Nah, bruh, you **in wit me

You're, like, Jesus Christ

He was here too!

What? Wait, wait, so the Christians got it right?

Well I'm about to reincarnate you Atom. I'd say everyone kinda got it right

This is a whole lot to take in!

I know trust me, I've been there

So, how many times have I been reincarnated?

Many, many many many, many times

If it's so many times, why don't I remember?

If we stayed here long enough, the lives you have lived

And the knowledge from each of them would return

What?

I'm actually about to send you back to 1736 as Bryan Fairfax, the 8th lord Fairfax of Cameron

Word, ayy, that sounds important

Oh yes you own 40,000 acres

God damn! Oh, I'm sorry

Ha, it's quite alright

Well at least I'm not poor no more

Well sure! with all that land and the hundreds of slaves you'll own

Slaves? Aw hell nah, nononono, look look look

How you gonna take a black man, send him back in time

And now I gotta own slaves?

Well if it's any consolation, your son Tom, the 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron sets them free!

No! That does not make me feel better at all

Wait hold up, I just realized you said you're gonna send me back in time?

Well, I'm not really sending you back in time

That doesn't exist where I come from, only in your universe

Well, where are you from?

Honestly Atom, even if I explained where I came from

Or told you about the others like me, you just wouldn't understand

But if there's others like you, how can you be god?

Atom, I said you wouldn't understand!

So what's the point of doing all this?

Really?

What?

A little cliche don't you think?

Essentially asking Me the meaning of life

Well I figured I would ask before you send me back and I can't remember none of this

Atom come here. The meaning of life

The reason I created this place, is so that you can grow, and mature

Like the human race?

Like this is how the human race is supposed to grow and mature?

Mature into what? We can't even get along

No Atom, you! It's for you, YOU to mature

I don't understand

I created this place for you, Atom

This entire place was made for you

Every time I send you back, every life you live, you grow

And mature and understand the grand meaning behind all of this

Just a little more each time

Just me? Wait, what about everybody else?

Atom, there is no one else

I don't understand

Atom, you are every human being who has ever existed since the dawn of your kind on earth

Wait, I'm everyone?

Aaahhhhh yes, now you are beginning to see it

So I'm like, everyone that ever existed on earth, ever?

Earth? Ha, that's cute

Earth was just your birthplace

Let us not forget all the stars humanity will colonize over the millennia

Wait, that is so much

Too much to take in!

I'm every human being that ever lived?

Or ever will live, yes!

I'm Jesus?

And all of his disciples

I'm Hitler?

And the millions he murdered

That's deep

You see Atom, every act of hatred and violence you committed against another

You were committing against yourself

And every act of love and hand of kindness

You also extended unto yourself

God, why do all this?

Someday, long from now, you will become like me

You will mature to become what I am

I'm a god?

No, not yet. You see, I was once where you stand right now

It is not until you have lived every human life inside of your universe

That I may take you from this place

Once you have walked in the shoes of every race, religion, gender, sexual orientation

Loving and hateful person

It is only then that you will understand how precious life truly is