What is there after death?

It's a deep question, but for all I know in the next five minutes I could drop dead on the ground, I am not asking for someone who has had a near-death experience (unless they are willing to talk about it) and I just feel like, life is so short, for some life is only minutes long, some years, some maybe even a century, which is long, but in the scheme of things is short. I don't want to be reassured, I just really need the truth.

Can positive thinking actually help us achieve the things we want?

I love reading books about mindset and psychology and self-development. I have read the secret, if life is a game these are the rules, 7 habits of highly effective teenagers and now im reading a book called how to change your life by Ernest Holmes. I highly recommend that book. Now all these books share one concept in common which is mindset. I'll try to be as realistic as possible. So say I've always wanted to be confident. If I write positive affirmations like,"I am extremely confident," and read it everyday then by time I can achieve it? If I have positive thoughts regardless of my problems, can I still achieve things? If everyone in life had positive thoughts, will we all be happy or people who see the world through a rose colored glass?

Most likely it was John Locke.

"...his chief philosophical work A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge in 1710 which, after its poor reception, he rewrote in dialogue form and published under the title Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in 1713.

In this book, Berkeley's views were represented by Philonous (Greek: "lover of mind"), while Hylas (Greek: "matter") embodies the Irish thinker's opponents, in particular John Locke."

This is NOT a theoretical question, it's a hypothetical one.

It has little to nothing to do with reality. If, if, if.

The fact is, our lives are not known to be pointless and the reason (point) is also unknown or at least quite different for each of us. Most people already know or at least suspect that there are no gods.

Whether or not we are alone in the universe has little to no bearing on the meaning we appoint to our lives.

(P.S. it's their not there)

Yes. Some things are in fact meant to not be understood by most of us.

The US Tax code for one, the US legal system is another. I would also include banking and finance in that group.

These subjects are purposely created and maintained in a way that few can understand.

I don't know what the heck you are talking about. We are part of the universe. Does your beating heart serve you or do you serve it?

Perhaps you are partners?