does anyone worry the afterlife could be radically different from everything we know here on earth

everything we take comfort from on earth, everything that's familiar to us, our likes, our interests, or cherished loved ones....well i sometimes worry about the afterlife and might it be the complete reverse of that, the reverse of everything we know, love and take comfort from? not necessarily ' hell ', but an existence we never knew or expected to happen, devoid of all the things we like & take comfort from here on earth? and will our loved ones be with us.....or could we be separated and have to live a whole radically new existence?

this thought really frightens me, as i'm a deep thinker...my elderly mother would tell me none of these scary thoughts are true, she's always telling me to guard against getting carried away with my imagination....as apparently in this spiritual book she's reading, Jesus himself warns against getting lost in your imaginative thoughts if they are bad, unpleasant.

my mum has also told me in times gone by that when we leave this earth all the fear, pain, suffering, struggle etc is over and the afterlife will be wonderful beyond what we can understand, eternal love & understanding, light, etc...and again she would say those scary thoughts about the afterlife is my imagination running away with me and not true whatsoever.

my mum comforts & reassures me, but i still get these thoughts and fears at times,i think i need to strengthen my faith.

me and my mum are roman catholic, but we are spiritual as well.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

There are too many things wrong in this universe that we live in to waste time worrying about what none of us have any experience or knowledge about, including even if it exists. I have spent a lifetime continually adapting to an ever-evolving living situation. If there is something after, I will continue to adapt.

durinsBane1983 · 46-50, M

@dancingtongue because of my spirituality and my faith, i am certain , without any doubt- there is an afterlife, it's just i tend to get fearful at times at what that might be and being mortal, as we all are- i'm bound to not know, the unknown and it frightens me....but that is where my mother tells me that's where i must have my faith and not let my imagination overtake me and take me to dark places, which as i mentioned, Jesus warned against.