One minute I was in my shower cleaning up getting ready for work as a barista, then next I opened my eyes, found myself at a podium with a million people staring back at me. I was extremely confused and trying to figure out if maybe this was some sort of dream. I even pinched myself, not my proudest moment.

“This is not happening,” I spoke my thoughts into the mic and then realized I had said that out loud and had to take a deep breath and release. I looked down at the podium but found no notes of what he might have been telling these people. There wasn’t a projector with his speech either. I would have to improvise and hope that it would be okay.

The longer I couldn’t come up with anything, the more I stared at them with a blank face looking foolish. I need to come up with something fast, but I was drawing a huge blank. I felt like a panic attack could be coming on, but it seemed as if this new body didn’t experience the anxiety my soul did.

“Let’s talk about the meaning of life, no one really knows what it is,” I finally spoke. I decided to channel what I was going through and feeling right at this moment and that helped me to talk to these people. They seemed to be listening intently and happy with my topic.

“They say take a walk in my shoes, but none of us have ever physically taken a walk in someone else’s shoes besides our own,” I kept the conversation again.

“I have, I wore my moms heels this morning,” a girl from the crowd explained determined to prove me wrong.

“I don’t mean actual shoes, I mean being born as them, waking up as them, going through the years and experiencing their life experiences,” I answered the question.

“Life keeps going, it doesn’t stop. We’re meant to learn, we’re meant to keep going,” I said trying to think of more.

“Sir excuse me,” someone said stepping on stage and interrupting my speech. “This is my class and I don’t know why your talking on my behalf.”

When I looked at them, I realized it was my body but it wasn’t me in that body. It must have been the owner of the body that I was currently on.