“This is the way the world ends.

Not with a bang but a whimper.”

- T.S. Elliot (The Hollow Men)

Today I’m travelling to London, I’ve always wanted to try eating at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant in the heart of the United Kingdom. Who am I you ask? Well I’m just a simple foodie named James. I enjoy eating food, people close to me call me a gastronomer. I won’t call myself that, since I enjoy cooking as much as eating. But mostly eating, I can whip up comfort food, but never something that I can serve to sell. Though my friends enjoy my cooking, and my family loves it when I prepare a lot of food in the holidays.

I enjoy playing games, especially those moba games like D$!^ 2 and League of $^$&#@. And classed based shooters with magic. And there was I time I enjoy D&D and WoW.

Well enough of that, I’m currently with a guide that was assigned to me and a few others from the travel agency. It’s my first time in London so I’m going to enjoy this.

Suddenly the sky turned red, a lot of people stopped what they were doing and looked up in the sky. Why was the sky red you ask? Well seems like the commies are just doing their thing.

A lot of missiles were traversing the sky on to our direction, looks like North Korea managed to develop ICBM’s, well looks like this is the end better take a quick selfie and post in on Facebook.

“Wow looks like this is happening in a lot of places.”

My news feed was flooded by pics from all over the world of the North Korean missile attacks.

Oh well good bye world, I wish I can eat wonderful food in the afterlife.

*BOOM*

Inside the vast expanse that is the universe, I travelled along with other countless other souls, seems like there is an afterlife after all. We traversed through space, passing through each other. There was a feeling inside of me to go to a certain location, though I don’t know where this is, my body is slowly floating to it.

Upon reaching my destination, I was greeted by what seems like an angel. A handsome man with chiseled abs, and white wings. Holding a book and pointing people who arrived like me to where they would go next.

“Name?” The Angel asked me when we were face to face.

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“James Lo”

“Go to room 151”

I walked to the direction of the room, inside the white room I was greeted by an equally beautiful woman sitting on a chair.

“Hello James, looks like you died.” She said as I sat on the chair in front of the woman.

“Seems like that. Though I wanted to do a lot.”

“How so?”

“I thought I would at least be able to get married and start a family and do other stuff, but meh.”

“Well you seem quite relaxed for someone who died.”

“I seem relaxed, but deep inside I’m quite sad. Since I was expecting on eating something nice today.”

She looked at me and opened a book that was beside her chair.

“Looks like you wanted to eat at a restaurant of a famous cuisiner. Gordon Ramsay was it?”

“Yes, I’ve always wanted to eat his cooking. And always wanted to go to a restaurant where he cooked, but now it’s just a pipe dream.”

“So what do you want to happen now, James?”

I don’t have anything to do now, but I still regret not fulfilling my life, and not being able to eat all the best food that the world could offer. Specially Gordon Ramsay’s food.

“Well that’s it then, would you like to be reincarnated in another world? Since your world is almost uninhabitable from all that toxic stuff your kind has made, it’s been decided by the higher ups that we send your souls to other planets in the vast multiverse.”

“So James, I will ask you again. What do you want to happen now James?”

It’s now or never, I don’t like my life to end like this. I want to experience it all, the best of the best food. Living the life of a foodie, and finally settling down.

“I would like to be reincarnated,” I said “…but I want a few things first.”

“Well as long as it won’t break the rules, we can do it.”

“First I would like to be born somewhere that has magic, and I would like the power to create stuff I need for cooking like utensils and materials that I can think of, I want the ability to speak to all sentient life, next I want to be reincarnated as myself and with my memories, and lastly the ability to store stuff into a separate space that only I can access.”

“Well that can be taken care of.”

“Can I actually ask for your name?”

The woman stared at me, looks like she’s thinking about it.

“People call me by different names in the different worlds I look after, but in the place I would send you, I am called Seris. So James Lo of Earth, is that all that you wish?”

I contemplated a bit, living in another world would be a new experience for me, and I wish I can have something else…

“… Can I have my cellphone? But can my cellphone use the internet up until only when I died? Just to access some websites that I can use? And have the battery to be everlasting so I wouldn’t need to recharge it? And also make it indestructible?”

“You seem to have these weird ideas James Lo of Earth, very well.”

“… and I can actually see you again? Goddess.”

She looked at me while she blushed.

“W… we can meet again, ahh~ this is the first time someone actually wanted to meet with me again. Okay since you like it, just call me and we can meet again, James Lo~.”

Wow this goddess is kinda cute.

“I’m not that cute! They call me a cool beauty, not cute.”

“Ahh, but you are cute, very cute.”

“Hiya~~ stop it James Lo, so can I send you now?”

“Okay goddess, I am ready.”

And then I was enveloped in a while pillar.

“Good luck out there James Lo of Earth.”

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“And suddenly you just know…

It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”

-  Meister Eckhart