🎁[Storytime] He Died a Legend: The Weight of Wasted Gifts...
🧧I came across this 'short' and thought who better to share it with! An Atheist dies... & finds himself in a dim, dark space with a red hue. A welcoming figure emerges, smiling and ushering him forward. The Atheist looks at him, breaks the gaze, and scans the place left to right. (Thinking to himself: Am I in hell?) The air is thick with a crimson glow, not the roaring flames he’d imagined, but a haunting, eerie luminescence. 🗣️ Atheist: Am I in hell? 🗣️ The Figure: Why yes, yes you are. Welcome to my place. (Smiling, damn near bowing) 🗣️ Atheist: If this is “your place,” then that makes you... the D e v i l? 🗣️ Devil: (Head tilt, blushing slightly) Yes, that is I. 🗣️ Atheist: I don’t get it. If you’re the Devil, why are you being so kind to me? So respectful? 🗣️ Devil: OoOh, you don’t understand?! The level of evil you committed ... even I couldn’t have pulled off! 🗣️ Atheist: (Shocked. Clearly confused.) 🗣️ Devil: You see... that guy (points upward, rolls eyes toward GOD) granted you so many gifts. Gifts meant to uplift the world, inspire others, and create a chain of hope. (Eyes gleaming) But you didn't. 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐃𝐈𝐃 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆! (Huge smile) Well, you did make us nervous once... when you had a flicker of an idea and started creating. We were sweating bullets which is pretty hard to do down here, ya know. But the moment things got hard... 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐓! 🕺🏼 (Excitedly punches the air with pride) You went back to your normal life... We started rooting for you so hard, hoping you’d never try again. But once we realized your inaction was so consistent, and your disbelief in yourself so absolute... We knew we had nothing to worry about, you were on our team. & PHEW! (Wipes forehead) We lucked out, your impact would’ve been massive. 🕺🏼But again, 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐃𝐈𝐃 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆. And that made my job soooo much easier. Because of you, many of the souls cycling in despair... they’re mine now. So yes, we rooted for you. We waited for you. & Now you're here - - 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄!