“In my next life,” someone said to me today, “I’ll be a snail. I’ll move around at my own pace and I’ll never be homeless.”
What’s next for you after death? I’ll let you in on a secret about what’s next. You are your own judge. That sounds like you’ll get off easy in your next life, for what you’ve done in this life but I urge you to think again about what’s next.
My boss at work was doing the employee evaluations. “Who’s next?” he called and I took the next turn. “Here are the evaluation forms.” The supervisor ordered. “Go fill them out and I’ll submit what you think of your job performance.”
I was slightly nonplussed but I penciled in a self assessment.
Next, the supervisor reviewed the grade I assigned myself.
“I would’ve marked your performance higher than this.” He said as he put the file away. He then took out the next form for the next guy.
Tune the Spirit
“But I was as honest as I could be.” I complained. “What about the next guy? He could give himself a better rating, even if he didn’t achieve up to my level. If you felt that I should have scored better, then how fair is this?”
“It doesn’t matter anyways.” The sagely supervisor said. “Performance evaluations are just bureaucratic corporate nonsense. If a spot for a promotion comes up I’ll give it to the person I know is most qualified. Just the manner in which the the employee fills out his or her own tells me more than the whole performance evaluation system.”
View God’s Performance Appraisal System
The supervisor’s performance evaluation logic made some sense to me back then, but during my death experience, when I saw what’s next, the poignancy struck home with me. What’s next, immediately next, before the next life, is this life’s performance appraisal. And just like my boss did, eternity lets the judged do the judging. What’s next for the supervisor and the employee is only the next promotion.
What’s next for you after you rate yourself in judgment will be your next life? Rating yourself honestly affects your next life placement. Rating yourself now can and should affect how you will fare in what’s next: are you ready to face what’s next?
A next life as a snail may seem relaxing and secure but sliding along through a next life on a trail of my own mucus isn’t what I have planned for my next life. Now what’s next? That would be my next post. 
