If I was told that I’d come back to earth to be reincarnated as another human being with choices. I would like the following;
To be a woman. To be non-binary, still. To still remain a ‘gray world resident’. To retain my ability to not cave to FOMO and be resourceful. There’s a hundred of other things but in terms of core ones, those are the few.
likely retaining all the knowledge you gained before you died, would be enough to fast track you through school and not make the same mistakes you did in a previous life, no need to complicate yourself. and you can avoid all the dysfunction you get from your family/relatives when they start nagging at you.
I enjoy being a woman, able bodied, relatively smart.
But honestly, I guess I’d roll the dice & take what I get.
Sometimes I think the only literally fair system is if everyone has to be everyone eventually. Be all the people you hate, all the people you look down on or ignore.
If your answer is not to liberate everyone from samsara even if it means delaying yourself then your answer is the wrong one.
;)
Well now I feel bad. I was going to say my huge penis, regardless of my gender.
I’m sorry because this is gonna sound terrible, but it’s an acknowledgment of the way things are rather than the way I think things ought to be: being male. Women a treated horribly.
Whats left from my memory after i kick the bucket. Imagine being 3 years old with 70 years worth of life experiences🤣
Here’s your daily dose of cosmic horror.
You in fact do retain all your memories when you reincarnate. But you’re born into a body you’re incapable of using. You can’t move your limbs. You can’t even see initially. You can’t speak. Imagine being shoved into a Matrix-style fully immersive simulation, except the simulation feeds you only unending static to all of your senses. And there is no way out. This is why babies scream.
By the time the months necessary to have any level of coherent thought have passed, your old mind is completely shattered. Your old memories are gone. Maybe some vague echoes of your old personality remain, but it is in fact a mercy that we do not remember our own infancy…
Great, a new horror. Months of no sensory input would drive anyone mad.
What is a grey world resident?
I would of course choose to keep all my memories/cognition starting as a baby. Anime isekai has demonstrated that is more than enough to get a HUGE head start in life.
Maybe keep my old body? Its definitely not perfect: flat footed, need glasses, skin cancer likely, dementia is a maybe, etc. But at the same time, a lot of other people have it worse so I would be re rolling the die on that one, which could end up MUCH worse for me.
Someone who lives in the gray perspective than just simply black and white. It gives someone like me, the ability to see situations and perspectives of others in different angles. There are a lot of situations, beliefs, worldviews, point of views .etc that can be complicated to understand and simply aren’t always black and white.
A lot of people in society live in black and white. It is either this or that, no room for an in-between. I would hate to be someone who can only see one lane or the other land. For I believe being in the gray, gives you a greater sense of the world and society abroad.
That’s why I am often always saying things “that’s the reason” or “that’s why” or so. Because there can be multiple reasons and whys than just this or that.
I gotta come back? Lame.
Born to rich mentally stable parents.
My brain of course. It’s a good one.
In your new life, when you’re around 6 or 7 years old, one day you begin to wonder about that shrivelled, walnut-like thing your parents have in a jar.
Eventually you find out it’s a human brain. They got it years ago when they met in med school - they met when they worked on the same cadaver in a lab. You have no way of knowing it, but that brain was yours in a past life. Eventually you go to medical school yourself, and you take the jar with you.
I would want to keep the lessons I’ve learned, my morality, and my stock of crystalline knowledge and skills, but I guess it would be a good thing if I could forget the majority of my life, so that things like rereading books that I’ve read in the past, or watching TV shows that I’ve seen before, would be a thing that I could enjoy.
It would also be cool if I could be born again in a scenario that would allow me to re-meet the better people I’ve met in this life and grow up around them and have more time with them.
my morality
You don’t wanna groom your childhood friend into your life partner?
No, ew.
I would like to just retain my memories and my ego.
My genes. I want the exact same body as I have now. My race and ethnicity and skin color and size and hair and literally everything I am comes from what I look like and how I was treated because of that.
I’d wanna be born in france. I would’ve been a happier person there.
I would politely decline.
Unless I’m being born into a world where I don’t have to feasibly spend half my life working (at best), I’m not interested. I would time travel back and prevent my own birth if I could, and my life kicks ass.
