“Notes for Next Time,” is a list of things I’d like to remember in my next lifetime, in case there is such a thing as reincarnation.
As I get older, I find myself more and more inclined to believe in reincarnation. After all, how can anyone possibly figure it all out – get it all right – in only one lifetime!? It must take many lifetimes to finally know what is the right thing to do, and to actually do it.
But given my track record for forgetting things like where I parked my car, my concern is that I’m going to get to the start of my next lifetime… and completely forget whatever wisdom I may have picked up in this lifetime. So I decided to make myself a cribsheet – Notes for Next Time.
Only… I can’t think of anything to write…. So I’m asking my wisest friends if they would please add their notes for next time.
I hope you do! Thanks so much. And if you have some very wise friends, I hope you pass this link along and ask them for their contributions.
I hope you do! Thanks so much. And if you have some very wise friends, I hope you pass this link along and ask them for their contributions.
Know that nothing lasts forever, good or bad...so take time to really enjoy the good times and gut out the bad ones. Don't rush through or wish away life. :) Mary
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ReplyDeleteWhat I would do differently
1) Go Sky diving
2) Run the rapids
3) Settle for a little less and enjoy life more
4) Study harder in school
5) Listen to the elderly more , they have much more wisdom than me.
6)Live on a farm
7) Or Live on the ocean
8)Go mountain climbing
9)Don't always play it so safe
10) Spend more time in church
John
Therase says:
ReplyDeleteAnd then there's that Tim McGraw song...Live like you were dying...I love it! and it's so appropriate to Life...just makes you think....and add a few notes about living!
If reincarnation is real - as I also believe it is, and if actually remembering specifics from a past life is as elusive as I think it is, then I expect that TRUE feelings and life lessons remain. My note for next time is to remember, not in words but in my body, that anger serves no purpose unless it is channeled constructively. In this life it has taken me more than 50 years to understand that my anger not only has hurt the feelings of others but, more importantly, it has deprived me of energy, creativity and peace. I really do understand this now, but real success at incorporating this into all areas of my life is still a work in progress. HARD work for an angry human. Next time, when I get angry, I expect my body and mind to have the awareness and the tools to cope with intelligence and love. Too much blood, sweat and tears have been shed in this lifetime for my spirit not to know next time.
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ReplyDeleteTrust what you know by age 5
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