Old souls

[FlickerOfLight]

@Jesterium
I figured it was WW2 from the types of places in the sky.

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I've never believed in reincarnation, either. I've always thought of the idea as just a way to say God must be poor, 'cause he doesn't have enough souls to go 'round and so has to recycle them.

Plus, there's the math problem - there are more people alive, right now, today, than have existed in the entire previous history of humanity on Earth before about 1900. So if reincarnation is a thing, where did all those extra souls suddenly come from?

Still, I sometimes have wide-awake "flashbacks" to places and times I've never been, nor could have been in. So how does that happen? How do I "see" things that I've never seen before to be able to just make them up in my head?

Years ago, some crystal-festooned, patchouli-soaked, tree-hugging flower child told me that I had "an old soul". No, wait - she didn't say I "had" an old soul, she said I "was" an old soul. I dunno if that distinction is important or not. Didn't know what she meant then, don't know what she meant now. I've never figured out just what an "old soul" is supposed to be, so I dunno if I have one or not... or am one or not.... or whatever... but sometimes my soul does get mighty tired, kind of worn-out feeling, like it could use a nap. Maybe I just need more potassium in my life.

But folks say weird, unfathomable stuff like that to me fairly often. They just come in from nowhere, drop some crazy lines on me, they sky back out into the nowhere they came from. And I never know what the hell they are talking about.

Several years ago, I was walking down the street in Kansas City, just minding my own business and be-bopping right along, and some little dude drops out of a recessed store front and stops me. He says "you've  seen things, haven't you?" Well, I didn't know what kind of answer he was looking for, so I replied "I dunno. I reckon. Probably stuff you can't imagine, and almost definitely stuff you'd not expect. So what makes you say that?" And he said "Your eyes. I can see it in your eyes." and then just like that he went back to whatever nowhere he came from, back into the shadows of that storefront. Never saw him again, and I'm kinda glad I haven't.

Life gets weird some times. Just roll with it... and if you ever find out what an "old soul" is, let me know - it'll clear up one more of life's little mysteries for me!

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In my experience, logic and reason are not what leads us to finding and walking into "The Kingdom of Heaven."

Lean not on your own understanding. 

Unless you become like a little child you will never see the Kingdom of heaven.