Reincarnation
This is a concept that really intrigues me. The idea that you move through the stages of life in a never ending cycle. Can you stop? Do you get to choose who you come back as? Is it an endless loop: born, live, die, born again without a break? Perhaps you get some time to refect on the life you just led, and carfeully select your next one? Maybe that look on a baby's face when they open their eyes for the first time isn't a look of wonder or amazement. Maybe it's a look that says "Oh shit! I'm here again!"
The purpose of reincarnation, or so we are to believe, is to learn valuable life lessons. But if we forget them, what's the purpose? I'm supposed to believe that my sub-conscious has a faint memory of what once was and why I'm back for round two? or round 310! My conscious can't even rememeber what I had for lunch on Saturday, and it's only Tuesday. How can I expect to learn, remember and apply life's lessons in my 'new' life to make it better!
Can you cycle through different types of life as well? From an ant, to a bear to a human? If that's the case, why would you choose to come back as an ant! Appreciating the struggle of life is a good lesson, but not at the risk of getting stepped on! I wonder if you were a cop your whole life, a good cop, a happy cop...I wonder if you would come back as a criminal the next time. Just to see both sides. If you can choose, why aren't we all happy people? You did it to yourself!
I read somewhere that the earth rotates at 1300 km an hour. Does jumping into a new life feel like a marble being thrown onto the roulette wheel? Do you bounce around a bit then settle on a body? Is it like calling out "Red 14" and you stay with winner as their new child? Is it random?
Can you pre-select who you'd like to be the next time around? More importantly, do you re-live the same set of events through a new characters eyes? Or is every time around a whole new stage, with new characters that you have to meet and interact with.
I wonder if you can tailor it to your taste. If you had the choice- what would you choose?
The purpose of reincarnation, or so we are to believe, is to learn valuable life lessons. But if we forget them, what's the purpose? I'm supposed to believe that my sub-conscious has a faint memory of what once was and why I'm back for round two? or round 310! My conscious can't even rememeber what I had for lunch on Saturday, and it's only Tuesday. How can I expect to learn, remember and apply life's lessons in my 'new' life to make it better!
Can you cycle through different types of life as well? From an ant, to a bear to a human? If that's the case, why would you choose to come back as an ant! Appreciating the struggle of life is a good lesson, but not at the risk of getting stepped on! I wonder if you were a cop your whole life, a good cop, a happy cop...I wonder if you would come back as a criminal the next time. Just to see both sides. If you can choose, why aren't we all happy people? You did it to yourself!
I read somewhere that the earth rotates at 1300 km an hour. Does jumping into a new life feel like a marble being thrown onto the roulette wheel? Do you bounce around a bit then settle on a body? Is it like calling out "Red 14" and you stay with winner as their new child? Is it random?
Can you pre-select who you'd like to be the next time around? More importantly, do you re-live the same set of events through a new characters eyes? Or is every time around a whole new stage, with new characters that you have to meet and interact with.
I wonder if you can tailor it to your taste. If you had the choice- what would you choose?
1 Comments:
My choice:
to come back as a spoily-faced beautiful black labrador named SPOOK!
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