Death and possibilities

Okay so there are three possibilities as to what can happen once you’re dead. 1) the most common and yet the most controversial : heaven. The concept of heaven is pretty simple. Let’s forget the fact that there are seven billion people in the world and our dear God has the time to keep an eye on everyone. He has all the time in the world to maintain books on all the good and bad deeds done by people. And guess what? If your good deeds are more than your bad ones, then you go to heaven. A place where you don’t age, apparently. God is kind of like Santa Claus.  He keeps check on people and then decides who is worthy enough to get gifts (in god’s case the gift is heaven) But there’s one more thing about Santa Claus that we’ve forgotten- he doesn’t exist.
2) You are buried under mother earth, mentally dissolving into nothingness and physically eaten by maggots, worms and what not. But, I refuse to believe that this can happen. You do all this hard work your whole life, fight for yourself, stand up for what’s right, take the hard route and then when you die you’re just…gone? Gone into a kind of darkness that has no end. You don’t get to see if people miss you or what they say about you once you’re gone. You don’t get to see if all that you did while you were alive was of any use. You don’t get to check on your loved ones. And you do so much in life for what? To get layers of soil over your body and a huge stone with your name on it. Woah.
3) You become a ghost and wander forever. You’re there but you’re not really there. You get to see what everyone’s up to. You get to stay in silence. In a way, that’s so cool. But at what cost?
If I say I believe in ghosts then I’m basically saying that I believe we’ll never find peace. You know why they say ‘He’s at peace now’ or ‘he’s in a better place now’ when someone dies? It’s because they’re away from all of it forever. They don’t have to worry about a thing that goes on here. But if we were to become ghosts then we would be stuck here. We would never move on. We would be stuck in between reality and oblivion. We would never find peace. And I don’t want to believe that. I want to believe that you only get one life and that’s all. When you’re gone, you’re just gone. You don’t get to stick around and see how things work out.
But then again, these are just possibilities. For all we know, life after death isn’t as simple as being a ghost. It could be so much more complex than anyone could ever imagine. In a way, it’s our blessing and our curse to not know what happens after this. Let’s respect that. Let’s make the most out of this one life. Let’s not worry about what happens next.