Soul Game By Adeline Atlas (SOS: School Of Soul)

Dec 13, 2025

Who Am I?

How did I become an author and arrive at this point in my life? Born in Canada. Raised in a conventional family. Held back by convention. Used convention to make money. Escaped convention to become a global citizen and a student of the school of life.

Six years ago, on October 1, 2017, I was in the crowd when a mass shooting occurred at the Route 91 music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. Obviously, I survived, but most importantly, this trauma did not leave me permanently numb. That evening, I learned the true value of life, and I have not looked back. Of course, I give my Soul deep condolences to the 867 humans3 who were injured that evening, and my heart and prayers remain with them and their families.

But for me, this tragedy carried a life lesson: to value each single moment and never waste a second of my time. This has been challenging, not for me, but to be me, which means ﬁrst ﬁnding out who that is, who I’ve been, who I am now and who I intend to be, and that included multiple struggles to overcome what others did not wish me to become. I never thought the hardest battle I would ever ﬁght would be the ﬁght to become myself. You do not realize how trapped you are in life, in your role, in your job, by those around you, by your family until you try to leave the cage. I set my sights on freedom and claimed it at all costs. After that evening in Vegas, I have never been the same. Thank God! I am better than ever because I learned that my life matters, that it is a gift to be alive, and that time is more valuable than dollars,

Since that day, I have paid the price to earn my freedom. Freedom to be myself and the freedom to create a life worth living. I persevered through fear, solitude, ﬁnancial hurdles, doubts, separating myself from my family, home community and everything I ever knew to choose my Soul’s purpose and make it to my grand demonstration. Some tried their best to hinder my journey, as they did not grasp the profound lessons that drive my Soul.

Everyone gets a review at the end of life. I call this J Day when your life ﬂashes before your eyes. There are two versions of J Day, and we do not all get the same movie played. For some, they will have their loved ones, and a replay of the life they lived appear in their mind's eye. And for the others, they will have a review of the life they never had but always desired.

This is right-sight, the only moment when you receive an intense download of your entire life's memories and aspirations at once––all of it in a sheer second––and that is why people are not the same after a life-and-death event. These ﬂashes in time oﬀer you an opportunity to realign your life, and I am still taking advantage of it every second of every day, for I witnessed the life I thought I would never get to see happen.

Once you know the fragility of your own existence, you might never waste your time again. Thank you to everyone who has stepped in to support me as I transitioned from who I was to who I always wanted to be.

When the time comes to review my life on my ﬁnal day, I intend to feel proud of myself for doing everything possible to become everything I could be in this lifetime. I hope you will do the same in your own way, perhaps with the help of this series.

Here are some questions I began to ask in the aftermath of my experience in Vegas and some initial thoughts I had trying to ﬁnd my way forward.