PAST LIVESI

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PAST LIVESI

PAST LIVES

I was wondering, what do you all think you were in your past life? I think I was either a sparrow or an owl.. not so sure. I am obsessed with birds and love being in high places!

submitted by Luna, age 11, Hogwarts
(April 6, 2015 - 11:02 am)

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YAY, another bird person!

When I grow up, I want to be a pota- I mean, ornithologist!

I don't know what I was , though. Probably an owl - I love reading and hate interactions... 

submitted by hotairballoon
(April 6, 2015 - 12:04 pm)

I used to believe in past lives because I could view fragments of their memories. One of the clearest was an old man. I could see his hands quite a bit--they were always very pale and full of veins and they often shook. I think he was ill. I couldn't hear his voice, but I could sometimes know the words he said. He taught me a lot of weird words when I was a kid--I went looking some of them up a few minutes ago and they really are words, mostly archaic British curses. I could also sometimes see images of a woman he loved--never an image of her, but an image of her dress. I don't pay attention to clothes, but if I saw that dress in a crowd, I would be able to identify it in a heartbeat.

The past life before this present one was a tree. I could sometimes remember speaking to other trees which was why I found it so easy in this life to speak to trees and understand them. Some of my very first friends in this life were trees because of that. I called one Grandmother, one Big Brother (he was close in age to me, I felt, almost like a twin), Little Brother, and Mother. I used to hug her a lot when I was scared and she would hold me and keep me safe. She told me that she would protect me forever. I could hear her speaking- not in the way humans speak, but with a very odd, very different language of thoughts/feelings.

I don't believe in them now, but those lives seemed very real at the time.  

submitted by Ruby M., age 15, Somewhere
(April 10, 2015 - 11:25 pm)

I don't belive in reincarnation or "past lives." Sorry if you're offended because of the quote. But if I could transform into something else, I would love to be a dragon. But dragons aren't real...

submitted by S.E.
(April 11, 2015 - 4:02 pm)

I don't necessarily believe either, but I think it's better than just sitting under a tombstone until the earth implodes.

submitted by hotairballoon
(April 12, 2015 - 7:50 am)

The Buddha reached Nirvana and got out of the cycle of reincarnation. That's what we all want to do! And though I'm nonreligious, the afterlife idea that sounds most legit is a "Land of the Dead" which is a multipurpose Heaven and You-Know-Where. The people with good intent get to party all night. The people with bad intent don't. Also there is a Reaper Network, because the Grim Reaper is supposed to make a dramatic entrance and two people die every second, so how is he going to make a dramatic entrance in a half of a second? Plus those deaths occur all over the world. So how is he going to get around? So instead of one Reaper, there is a Reaper Network of Reapers who lead lives fairly similar to ours. You know, get married, have baby Reapers, hang around drinking coffee in their free time... so when you die, you see the Reaper and hear him say, "It's nothing personal dude, it's my job," you'll know I was right!

I admit I made the Reaper Network part up. But it kind of makes sense, doesn't it? 

submitted by Somebody, age Who Cares, Various places
(April 12, 2015 - 11:26 am)

How do you know? This is a wide, wild, universe and maybe in one corner of it there are dragons.

 

submitted by Shadow Dragon, age 11, Dark, lonely dungeon
(April 12, 2015 - 6:50 pm)

I don't believe in past lives, but I like to think of what it would have been if I had one. What I've come up with is a tall skinny teenage boy, weird huh? Maybe that's what I am at heart, the opposite of my true self.

submitted by Forrest
(April 12, 2015 - 2:29 pm)

A cloud, because I like to watch people come and go from afar, hearing their conversations and observing their actions. 

submitted by Cloudy Dweller
(April 14, 2015 - 1:01 pm)

I sorta believe in past life. I mean, you have no thoughts when you're dead and... Well... Something must happen! Right?

I believe I was a cat. Yup. Thank you. 

submitted by Danie
(April 15, 2015 - 10:44 am)