The Love of My Afterlife

When Delphie arrives in Evermore and Merritt shows her a video of her life, Delphie realizes just how little she has done with her life. When she realizes that her life consists of a basic routine of going to work and staying home alone, Delphie learns that she has only been doing the minimum to survive. Throughout the novel, she begins to see that she never really lived her life. Learning how to enjoy life is the most important lesson that Delphie faces in the novel, though it takes her some time to recognize just how much she was wasting her life before her death. Delphie knows that her life has essentially been on pause since high school when the bullying she experienced caused her to give up many meaningful interests, such as art. She has so little worth living for that when she describes herself, Delphie can only say, “I work at Meyer’s Pharmacy as an assistant and I’m twenty-seven” (105). Her adolescent experience with bullying and her parents’ divorce led Delphie to lose trust in others and actively avoid them, cutting out any meaningful human interaction from her life. When she first returns to Earth, she is so focused on pursuing Jonah that she doesn’t see how little she has been doing with her life.