Past Lives

I don't think I believe in them. Unfortunately, I'm of the depressing belief that we're born and then we die, and there is nothing before or after. I admit it's a hard to concept to deal with, and I sincerely wish I could believe something more ethereal.

But, I don't want to get into all of that...it's definitely one topic (maybe the only one) that I don't want to talk about here.

So, onto what I did want to talk about...

The other day while I was working in the front office a professor came in and looked at me and said: "I can see your past life." Weird in and of itself, eh? Has anyone ever said that to you?

Then he went on to inform me that I was a fat, bald, jolly Chinese man who enjoyed eating.

He said we've all had thousands of lives by now and the important thing is to figure out why a certain life is showing itself in your aura at this point in time.

He said he thought the Chinese man was an example of someone who really appreciated where we was in the moment, and who enjoyed exactly who he was at that point in time. He said I should learn from that past life and not be so hard on myself and instead rejoice in who I am.

Interesting that he hit the nail on the head, don't you think?

I guess it wouldn't be too hard to figure out, considering that I walk around school looking like my dog has just died...so maybe he just made up the whole past life thing in order to make a point.

Regardless, I thought it was a nice effort on his part...and it even made me smile and accept what he had to say, even if only temporarily... (I'm trying for the permanency; it's just a little more complicated than one past life explanation can solve.)