Why? Why Me? Why? I never believed in a religion, yet somehow... I'm here, in absolute darkness where I can't see! Yet I also hear voices? So why? Is this a dream? do I need to wake up? My eyes feel like they're open but I can't see anything! I am frightened... I feel ... lost...

  Suddenly, a bright opening spawns in front of me and what it appears to be... a man wearing a white robe walking out. He spoke to me "Greetings, I am your guide. Do as I say and we will reach to your proper destination." I told him "What are you?" and he said "I am a psychopomp, also known as a Soul Guider. It is my job to help you and many others to reach there afterlife. Now come, if you don't then you will be forever stuck in limbo."

  I followed him walking through the opening. Looking around it looks like hell with rocky pathways reaching through the sky and below me looks like an army of monsters all looking at me and screaming like as if they want me. One of them tried to climb up after me, and the soul guider stepped in and launches a white lightening bolt through his finger, smiting the monster. "This soul is protected by me, those who dare attack this innocent soul shall feel the wrath of light!" The soul guider announced. "We must hurry, the evil spirits are reckless." he told me and we continued walking up the pathway to the sky.

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  Looking out from a distance, I see lines of people following other soul guiders. Some look like Angels, some look like a deity from a mythology. I ask him "Is there more than 1 religion?" and he replied "All religions exist, every religion links to all these pathways to there proper destination depending which religion you believed in. Even though the beliefs are different, the paths for guiding souls are still the same." and I said to him "I never believed in religion, so where am I going?" He turned and looked at me "To where your ancestors are waiting at, waiting for you."

  We finally reached the top, an opening to the afterlife that my ancestors believed in. I see them, waiting for me, but before I walk in. I had to ask him, "Why Psychopomp?" I turned around ask him again "What does it take to be a psychopomp?" and he said to me "Simple, all you have to do... is volunteer. But beware, If you decide to be a psychopomp, you will have to forget your love ones in exchange to help others for you believe is the right thing to do." then I said to him "May I ask my family one last goodbye?" and he shook his head yes. So I walk in, meet my parents, grandparents, my brother, telling them all how much I miss them so, then saying goodbye to everyone of them. Then I head back and volunteered to be ... a Psychopomp!