The Reincarnation

The way you treat others in this life, combined with reasonable foresight will determine what you are reincarnated to be. My mother told me about reincarnation first, saying she knew me a very long time. She told me souls travel in packs, like wolves and water buffalos, being reborn around the same core group of people you’ve been traveling with for thousands of years. She told me she realized when she saw me at birth that she’d been my mother before, though she never told me where a soul really began or ended, only that you will keep going and going in a new body with each passing. Then my fourth grade teacher asked me,

“Has anyone ever told you you’re an old soul?”

I didn’t know what it meant at the time, but I knew I was different from the other kids.

I’ve always thought that my past would determine how I handled the present and future. To what degree of “past” I learned is that much more important. So I’ve explored my mind, my behaviors, and my traits I know I exude, and what other’s tell me, and put together my belief of past lives:

I know I was royalty in one life, I took the throne and saw my people through much hardship, and I earned their respect. Then I was a warrior, I commanded ships of men and possibly women through many wars and we were prevailing.

Upon knowing me about two weeks, my teacher in my sophomore year said,

“I’m pretty sure we were sisters in a past life.”

In this way, I realize that many other people will share my belief as well. I’ve learned how key reincarnation is to my current life, and how I may need to learn from my past to help my future and current self. I’ve come across many people that feel like they were supposed to meet me, that I had a familiarity about me, and a certain wisdom that can only come with experience well beyond my years. This is why I believe reincarnation is real.