My Next Time Around

The Last Chapter

from

My Life Outside The Box

The Autobiography and Prophecy

of

Offie C. Wortham, PhD

“My Next Time Around”

 I will make my “transition” in 2031, at the age of 93. I will be reborn in northern Nepal, in the Mustan District, near the border with Tibet. For this incarnation I will choose an affluent Asian family to help me fulfill my karma and continue my evolution. The present experience with a working-class Black family in the United States has been very helpful and eventful, but I must now shift my perspective and sharpen my focus.     

My father, who will be Chinese, will have been trained as an international banker, with an MBA from Harvard. My mother, a Tibetan, is a poet. They will have met in undergraduate school at the Singapore Institute of Technology and Design. She will have earned an MFA from the Sorbonne in Paris. My father and mother are both tenured professors at the Kathmandu Model College.

Because of the backgrounds of my parents, I will be raised speaking Chinese, English, French, and a Central Tibetan dialect. My first formal education outside our home will be at a boarding school in Dharamsala, India, where the Tibetan government–in-exile will still be in existence. The current Dalai Lama, who will be five years older than me, will also be a student at the same school. I will attend Princeton and earn a bachelors degree in Operations Research and Financial Engineering with the class of 2051. From there, I will follow my father to Harvard and MIT where I eventually will acquire a doctorate in political psychology. One year will be spent at Oxford University concentrating in International Affairs. Coming back to my family in Kathmandu I will then be prepared, as my family and I will have previously planned, to enter the Shaolin Monastery in China in 2057 to become a Buddhist Monk, and take my vows to be celibate, (while sometimes remembering, as an ordinary man, the scores of conquests and good times in the United States and Europe).

I will have maintained my close relationship since boarding school with the Dalai Lama. We both share a core belief that the purpose of life is to be happy. His sense of humor and incredible discipline will continue to inspire and encourage me. Although he is only the spiritual head of Tibet, he is still the figurehead of the struggle for autonomy for Tibetans, and he will be important in the long negotiations with the Chinese government for establishing a small new nation on the southern border of Greater Tibet. My role in this process is to become the primary translator between the Tibetans in exile, including the Dalai Lama, and the principle negotiator from the Chinese government in Beijing, the grandson of Mao Tse-tung. China by this time has become the most powerful nation on earth, with the United States in third position after the European Common Market. The major struggles between nations are now economic, not military. The United States has no foreign bases abroad, and has focused its priorities on improving its educational system and increasing the standard of living for its citizens. The Hispanic president will be the second female to hold the office. The United Nations now has the largest army in the world.

As I am completing my five years of study at the monastery I will renounce my celibacy and continue to become more involved in the development of the new Tibetan nation. At the age of 31, in 2062, I will become the first ambassador to the United Nations for the new democratic nation between Nepal and Tibet, in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. The Tibetan exile movement which has been based in India since 1959, over 103 years ago, will finally migrate from their Diaspora around the world and come home to the New Tibet.