REINCARNATION?

I play with that idea but to tell you the truth I just don't know if it is a reality nor do I know exactly how it is or how it works if it is a reality.

But this I can tell you. I have looked back at my life unfold for over the past decades and I can see within this lifetime that I have lived many different lives so to speak and played many different roles.

As I learned and grew and matured and made decisions I found myself living from a different point of reference and sometimes from a different home or even from a different state.

Every time someone in my family died, the idea I had of my family and my place in it changed.

Every time I had a child the structure of my family of procreation changed.

Every time someone died or remarried it affected every corner of my world.

Change is a constant but every change in it brings another life, another chapter, another way of being. The main character (you) stay the same in terms of your awareness of a sense of your self but how you see things and relate to the world changes as things around you change.

There are always some things in your life that you call "constants" but the overall thing that you call your life cycles and recycles so that you are never quite the same person living the same life all throughout what you call your lifetime.

My children are all still alive at this point in my life and the fact that I gave birth to them and that they are my children is a constant; however, they continue to change and so do I and so do our circumstances and our point of reference to one another.

Life changes, particularly earth-shaking ones can throw you into a whole different life very quickly rather than slowly or progressively. You are a constant in consciousness of your self but how you think, feel, look, react, live, and choose continues to change. Your world changes and you find yourself living in another body so to speak as a different person than you were before the dramatic change took place. Some changes come more slowly and you adjust to them and don't notice them quite so much. But haven't you one day just looked in the mirror and wondered who that image was that stared back at you? You wondered about the physical changes that seemed to just suddenly appear when you know that they did not do that just suddenly. So too other things change in our world.

So, this day I reflect upon the many changes in my life that have given birth to many lives that I have thus lived in this one body, this one life time. Perhaps this is reincarnation of some type - living different lives (so to speak) with one consciousness.