Past Lives

I’ve always been interested in reincarnation and sometimes asked myself questions like; ‘Where was I a hundred years ago?’, ‘Where will I be in two hundred years from now?’ I can’t remember where I read or heard this meaningful quote that ‘each lifetime is just another chapter in the book of the soul’. Like a story book the same characters show up again and again in the different chapters. I think this is the same for us, people whom we have been connected to before in another time and place showing up again in our current lives. I also believe we carry forward special qualities and talents. So the plot moves on a little more each time as we give where we have previously taken and receive where we have given.

I wrote this post on 29th January, somehow feeling compelled to write on the topic of life and death. The following day on 30th January 2010 Dad passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. Thankfully it was a painless natural death and he did not suffer. Here he is on our last holiday together in India.