...the closer this light got to me,
the more awesome and the more pure this love...
"my life passed before me."
But it was not my life that passed before me
nor was it a three-dimensional caricature of the events of my life.
What occurred was every emotion I ever felt in my life, I felt.
And my eyes were showing me
the basis of how that emotion affected my life.
What my life had done so far to affect other people's lives
using the feeling of pure love that was surrounding me
as a point of comparison.
And I had done a terrible job.
