Recently I have been seeing a lot of articles and posts about people having memories from past lives. I have never really thought about what I believe regarding this topic because I was brought up catholic and never really questioned anything I learned. I never really thought of myself as religious although I remember my grandma always praying on her rosary beads and from time to time I would pray. I will admit, I was more interested in seeing all my friends at CCD and church than I was about actually learning about the religion. It just never really resonated with me when I listened to the sermons and once I was old enough to not go to church, I stopped. I never really questioned anything until I was in church for my cousins baptism and reading parts of the bible. Some of the stuff I was reading just didn’t make sense to me and I felt like it was the bible’s way or the highway. So since then I have been wanting to find my own way to have faith in a higher power. I believe that everyone should follow their own path whether it be religion or spirituality and each person is entitled to their own beliefs. I don’t think that anyone is wrong or right for what they believe because we don’t actually know for sure we just need to have hope and faith. We are all individuals and should have the right to believe what we want, when we want, and how we want. The important thing is to believe in something and I am still in the process of trying to figure out what I believe. So here are some of my thoughts from when I really sat down to think about religion and spirituality.
What if you write down events in life then describe the lesson you think you learned from them. Then you can look for patterns to see if there is something life is supposed to tell you. If you take these collective experiences and break them up into smaller pieces then you can actually take a step back from your life to try and see the big picture of what has happened so far in your journey and that might help you figure out where you are going. But even if you can’t see where your going at least you can see if there are recurring messages that maybe you haven’t learned yet because you didn’t have that piece of the puzzle. And by puzzle in case you didn’t know, I am talking about your life. All the pieces fit together and even though there may not be multiples of the exact same piece, there are most likely pieces that are very similar. Not really sure if a puzzle has multiples or not cause I haven’t done one since I was really little but you get the point. And the more of those puzzle pieces that come together, the more you will start to figure out what the big picture is.
I wonder if when we are where ever we are before we are born, do we know what we are about to go into in our next life. Assuming there is more than one life within us. Our soul is what the kids call it these days. But what if we had a choice after we died from our previous life and before we were born into our new one. What if we were given choices or a list of options for what experience we want to have or what we wanted to learn the next time we are born again. What if there isn’t just one life and there isn’t a heaven or hell where you stay for all eternity. We should all get second chances right? And third, and fourth, and it just keeps going with no end – Infinity. But then again if there really is no end and just like the universe how would we know.
When others close to you pass on do they then wait for you on the other side or do they move on to the next life without you? Do you meet them again? Do you only see them again depending on what your relationship was like in the previous life. Do you become different people or things in another life or are you always changing or always the same? And why do some say there are ghosts with unfinished business. But if you go that route you can also say some say there are vampires and werewolves and fairies and superpowers and UFOs. What if we are just duplicates of the same person living out lives in different galaxies? How do we know what to believe and what not to believe? Is it solely based on what we wish we could do or that we are bored and believing gives us entertainment and hope. I feel weird saying entertainment and hope in the same sentence talking about the same thing. But really how do we REALLY know what to believe.
Some believe in a holistic way of life and others believe in the conventional or traditional way of life. Is either right? Every person is different but we are all the same. We all are born and we all will die. But do you live the same life over and over until you learn what you are supposed to learn? Is that why we get déjà vu because we have already had this moment in a previous life? Are those our clues that we have been in this situation before and this is one of those decisions we need to make? Do our decisions even matter? Are we destined to have one ending but the plot can be whatever we chose it to be? And what do our dreams have to do with it? Are we supposed to learn something from our dreams? And where do all our memories go and what determines when and what we will remember? So many questions but will we ever know the answers? Is there really someone or something watching over us? Is there a bigger plan? When you pray or talk to spirit or the divine or god or the saints or the angels, or whoever you believe in, is there really someone listening and watching over you? Or is it just something made up like Santa or The Tooth Fairy? Do we ever really know or do we just need to believe?
