Jameela Jamil

I was raised to believe that there is this sort of point system, and it's ironic that I made The Good Place, which is actually a show about the point system, that you believe that we're raised, especially if you're raised religiously, to believe that

Well, life is just the bit that you get through and you do as well as you can because the afterlife is going to be so great.

And I stopped really feeling confident about an afterlife in my teens.

And so after that, I started to think...

I don't think I want to live my life for this utopian guarantee.

It's a gamble.

It's a lottery.

And I had a near-death experience when I was 15, I think.

I had meningitis.

And I don't know, man.

Who am I to say?

But I didn't see shit.

And I think that's what...

It radicalized me against the idea of living now through all this punishment to then just have this great promise of an alleged afterlife.

So I really just think life is not a test.

it's an adventure.

We're here to have as much fun as possible.

We're here to come as often as possible.

And I think if we were doing so, there would be far less war and far less problems and less violence.

And I think that we are here to spend quality time and really get to know not only ourselves, but each other.