On earth, a young man in Nigeria, Timilehin, talked to grandpa on his compound “Grandpa’s life has been tough, dragging on me with no way to escape”, Timi said in Yoruba, his vibrant black skin glistening in the sunlight

  His grandpa said wisely in Yoruba, “My son’s life has its ups, and it’s downs, but life is a gruelling race,e so my one advice is live your life the way you want and never give up”

  His grandpa started laughing heartily, which surprised Timi, since he always laughed no matter what, even though he had cancer. He smiled at him, “Come on, son, be happy”

  Timi decided to cheer himself up “Sure, grandpa got it”, he said as the sun set to a golden hue

  Then the day came, the day tears rolled down his face, when he got the news, he drove as fast as he could to Ife, his grandpa’s hometown and where his funeral would be held

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  He saw as his casket went on top of the car, as family and friends drove around the city, the neighbourhood before finally arriving at his old home, the warm oak was still there

  Timi, please pick up the shovel and from the clump of dirt did the honour and poured the first dirt to bury him, as tears poured down his face. After the funeral, he cried for hours

  He locked himself in the house he pushed people who tried to help, but he remembered what his grandpa told him: always be happy

  He picked himself up and got up from working his butt off, but instead of living life

  He worked himself to death, and as his body went cold, he saw himself in a weird spatial dimension, as he saw blobs heading to different gates like little swirling galaxies

  He notices he was always a blob “What the hell is going on? I know I definitely died,” Timi asked, confused. Suddenly, a beautiful human with starry skin and braided hair stared at Timi curiously

  Suddenly, Timi’s body or soul or whatever this was, “You are quite an interesting soul, your soul strength is strong”

  ‘What the hell is she talking about?’ Timi thought, but for some reason, he felt a sense of overcalmness when all of a sudden, he found himself in a new body with the same dark skin and red spiky hair

  Suddenly, a maid called him “young master, wake up"