Assume, for the sake of argument, that reincarnation exists and that we have to return as humans again. What kind of life/body would you want to be born into? Would you want to be the same gender, race, etc. again? Would you want to live in a different part of the world? Would you want to be born into a different family or family dynamic?
supremelimbo
Member
- Sep 29, 2024
- 39
I honestly just want to be born into a normal middle class family. The race doesn't really matter I just don't want to be mixed race. I've always wanted to live in China but considering the quality of life there for most people it's quite the toss up.
Mostly I just want a family that supports my interests, i guess. I want to have things like after school piano or violin practice or dance or swim meet or anything that is useful. I want my parents to allow me to hang out with my friends, or go out on my own. I'd like to have sisters and I want parents who aren't "bigoted." I experience racism, ablism, and homophobia from my own parents and it sucks. I get really jealous when I see kids my age shopping and laughing with their parents. It's the dumbest thing on Earth. I can't even talk to my family about the only hobbies I have without feeling like my life is in danger. I want a family that loves me unconditionally and enjoys my presence. That's the kind of life I want, even if its not perfect. I don't want to be born super rich because I feel like that leads to a whole host of other problems.
Mostly I just want a family that supports my interests, i guess. I want to have things like after school piano or violin practice or dance or swim meet or anything that is useful. I want my parents to allow me to hang out with my friends, or go out on my own. I'd like to have sisters and I want parents who aren't "bigoted." I experience racism, ablism, and homophobia from my own parents and it sucks. I get really jealous when I see kids my age shopping and laughing with their parents. It's the dumbest thing on Earth. I can't even talk to my family about the only hobbies I have without feeling like my life is in danger. I want a family that loves me unconditionally and enjoys my presence. That's the kind of life I want, even if its not perfect. I don't want to be born super rich because I feel like that leads to a whole host of other problems.
PlannedforPeru
SaSu. Lurker
- Sep 21, 2024
- 69
I wouldn't mind a redo of my current set-up, but my brain needs to be wired waaaaaay the fuck differently.
sweetcreep
reincarnating as a worm
- Jul 21, 2024
- 90
no. just worm. i want to be worm.
for a more serious answer... i would hate being reincarnated. i want to be nothing. if i was forced to be reborn as a human, then obviously i'd pick one where i have more privileges and resources than i do now. better wealth, better status, a different country. everyone knows that money can't buy happiness, but it can make life a lot more enjoyable.
i've never bothered to give this any serious thought, so it's not very detailed or interesting i suppose.
for a more serious answer... i would hate being reincarnated. i want to be nothing. if i was forced to be reborn as a human, then obviously i'd pick one where i have more privileges and resources than i do now. better wealth, better status, a different country. everyone knows that money can't buy happiness, but it can make life a lot more enjoyable.
i've never bothered to give this any serious thought, so it's not very detailed or interesting i suppose.
HenryHenriksen_6E
New Member
- Oct 19, 2024
- 4
If i was reborn, and my mindset was different, I would prob choose to relive this one.
Ironically, I'm fairly happy with what I have here, although it feels like my mental landscape is a chaotic storm where negatives carry so much more weight than the positives, and it frankly gets exhausting. Even minor setbacks remind me that I wouldn't be dealing with this if I simply died that day.
I manage to lead a relatively normal life, or that's what it seems like from an outside perspective, and no one would expect me to struggle, except from the times the 'joke' was slightly too realistic. Frankly, I'm simply your average joe who is slightly messed up in the head.
Idk if you people here would see me as pathetic, weak or ungrateful for having this form of normalcy, and still wanting to die, but I have a feeling my brain is wired in a way that makes me like this.
Another reason why I don't want to partake in my living-career anymore, is because I despise the world we live in. Yes, we have good stuff like pretty views, beautiful art and magic mushrooms, however I really don't need to go far to see the shit people do, and the consequences of that shit, and the people that suffer because of the consequences of that shit. If it'd be an option, I'd prob chose another world, where everyone is more peaceful, nicer and humbler than here. Maybe I'd like to be a random-ass dude in a cliche fantasy world with the average dragon as a pet, and a partner, with whom I can work with on a farm, while I write an unsuccessful novel on the sidelines. At last, I'll just croak in my sleep at the age of 83. 83 seems like a decent age if the life is decent all the way.
There's a lot more to unpack, although I don't want this to be long.
Ironically, I'm fairly happy with what I have here, although it feels like my mental landscape is a chaotic storm where negatives carry so much more weight than the positives, and it frankly gets exhausting. Even minor setbacks remind me that I wouldn't be dealing with this if I simply died that day.
I manage to lead a relatively normal life, or that's what it seems like from an outside perspective, and no one would expect me to struggle, except from the times the 'joke' was slightly too realistic. Frankly, I'm simply your average joe who is slightly messed up in the head.
Idk if you people here would see me as pathetic, weak or ungrateful for having this form of normalcy, and still wanting to die, but I have a feeling my brain is wired in a way that makes me like this.
Another reason why I don't want to partake in my living-career anymore, is because I despise the world we live in. Yes, we have good stuff like pretty views, beautiful art and magic mushrooms, however I really don't need to go far to see the shit people do, and the consequences of that shit, and the people that suffer because of the consequences of that shit. If it'd be an option, I'd prob chose another world, where everyone is more peaceful, nicer and humbler than here. Maybe I'd like to be a random-ass dude in a cliche fantasy world with the average dragon as a pet, and a partner, with whom I can work with on a farm, while I write an unsuccessful novel on the sidelines. At last, I'll just croak in my sleep at the age of 83. 83 seems like a decent age if the life is decent all the way.
There's a lot more to unpack, although I don't want this to be long.
FuneralCry
Just wanting some peace
- Sep 24, 2020
- 37,930
Nothing, I'd never wish for the cruel and futile burden that is human existence, personally I find it so torturous to exist, to me existence just feels like a mistake, it's something that I see as so terrible and dreadful that just causes endless amounts of suffering. I just want non-existence, all I hope for is to never suffer ever again, I just don't have any interest in suffering in this existence but rather I see such as always so deeply undesirable.
socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Dec 3, 2019
- 272
If I were to reincarnate (though my goal is to escape it) I'd like to be given a chance to live a new life as a Cis women, born into a functional family. Don't care about the country to much so long as it's part of the core Anglo sphere. My life would be no means perfect, but it would be significantly better then it is.
All and All I don't want to come back. And I'm working on trying to make sure that doesn't happen.
All and All I don't want to come back. And I'm working on trying to make sure that doesn't happen.
Redo this one WITH knowledge or intuition at least on how to act to avoid previous mistakes, or as someone functional enough to help and look after those I have left behind on Earth who I am not functional enough to be of use to right now.
We Are Angels
Member
- Sep 24, 2024
- 84
You haven't learned your lesson?
Absolutely no life on Earth is preferable to not existing here in the first place. Even if you are born in a wealthy family with healthy dynamics, in a good country and with good health there is no guarantee of safety, and whatever good you have is coming to you at the expense of the poor and exploited.
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Lost in a Dream
He/him - Metal head
- Feb 22, 2020
- 1,769
ijustwishtodie
death will be my ultimate bliss
- Oct 29, 2023
- 4,578
I wouldn't worry about what life I'd reincarnate into as, even under the theory of reincarnation, I can't really claim that my next life is "me" since the whole concept of "me" is created by the brain and memories aren't transferable even for reincarnation so, from the perspective of my current body, I'm basically at peace. Sure, my matter is getting put into a new body and mind but it isn't me..
This!!
Either relive my life, just do everything completely differently. Or be a cat or a dog or something, some kind of comfort animal, that can't remember sh*t.
ayanti
Death Seeker
- Aug 22, 2024
- 37
I've thought about this quite a lot. I believe reincarnation is true and is provably the most plausible thing after death, or at least I hope so. I would love to live as a different gender, be born as a male, lanky and tall. I wouldn't necessarily care about the race, but I love east asian culture so I would be okay with living as an east asian race. I would love to live in a completely different part of the world. And for sure live a different path, a happy path. As for family, I would like to be born into a family full of love and with a mother and father that are present in my life.
ctbcat
Yes, the everlasting contrast.
- Jul 14, 2023
- 222
would want to be a cat, maybe. i have no doubt there can be painful aspects to being one. but i guess i just assume most are owned or taken-care-of strays.
you have a forever-coat, unless you're a sphynx in which your human has to be your radiator, and you can sleep and eat and play and you have no responsibility other than continuing to exist. if you are lucky, you are loved, and loved dearly. my own cat is very important to me, even if she is a defiant old lady - i honestly think i would've attempted much earlier if i hadn't got her so young. it would nice to mean that much to another person even if all i do is recieve pets and drive a hole in someone's wallet
cat, or any sort of other domestic pet. maybe i just want the lack of responsibility and the intrinsic being cared for.
i would prefer reality shifting at death, though. but if i reincarnated at the above i guess i wouldnt have a too much of a problem
you have a forever-coat, unless you're a sphynx in which your human has to be your radiator, and you can sleep and eat and play and you have no responsibility other than continuing to exist. if you are lucky, you are loved, and loved dearly. my own cat is very important to me, even if she is a defiant old lady - i honestly think i would've attempted much earlier if i hadn't got her so young. it would nice to mean that much to another person even if all i do is recieve pets and drive a hole in someone's wallet
cat, or any sort of other domestic pet. maybe i just want the lack of responsibility and the intrinsic being cared for.
i would prefer reality shifting at death, though. but if i reincarnated at the above i guess i wouldnt have a too much of a problem
MatrixPrisoner
Enlightened
- Jul 8, 2023
- 1,509
No, I would want to kill myself all over again. Human existence is the most disgusting thing on the planet that needs to go extinct already.
Final-push123
Internet wizard
- Jan 28, 2020
- 91
If I was reborn, I want to be either a upper class human(preferably male but I am not picky) or a bird
Flying over the world at will seem rad
Flying over the world at will seem rad
AAE
Member
- Mar 28, 2024
- 39
I've read a lot about NDEs, Near Death Experiences and something that kept coming back was people being told in the spiritual realm that reincarnation is a choice. It would explain why Dalai Lama keeps being reincarnated to guide his people, for example.
To answer the question, I'd want to be a cat, but only if I get to live in a safe place where people truly love me.
To answer the question, I'd want to be a cat, but only if I get to live in a safe place where people truly love me.
TraumaEscapee:)
I hate my birth family
- Apr 30, 2023
- 210
I wouldn't care what I was born as, as long as I was loved and cared about.
If I really had to do this all over again, I guess mostly my current life, but:
- Not being neurodiverse.
- Being born into a larger more supportive family.
- Not being neurodiverse.
- Being born into a larger more supportive family.
struggles_inc
life is a highway and i wanna wreck my car
- Jun 24, 2023
- 290
Imagine that babies cry after being born because it's their horrific realisation that their soul has found yet another vessel. It's their small moment of clarity before they lose their memories and start over.
I've been scared of this idea for a long time.
I've been scared of this idea for a long time.
offtoseethewizard
Student
- Aug 19, 2023
- 118
kat6
a cloud of smoke trying to occupy space
- Sep 25, 2024
- 70
Most belief systems that incorporate reincarnation talk about soul families and how you reincarnate in the same soul family over and over with different roles. I always found that terrifying and so discouraging. I worked so hard to get away from family and I don't want another life to "fix those relationships".
The only way I would want to reincarnate is if I got to have one of those "on earth on vacation" lives. Like a beautiful, rich, healthy person with a great family, and an easy, exciting life. Lol no more hardships and "character growth". I'm good.
The only way I would want to reincarnate is if I got to have one of those "on earth on vacation" lives. Like a beautiful, rich, healthy person with a great family, and an easy, exciting life. Lol no more hardships and "character growth". I'm good.
Leiot
Coming back as a cat
- Oct 2, 2024
- 197
Most belief systems that incorporate reincarnation talk about soul families and how you reincarnate in the same soul family over and over with different roles. I always found that terrifying and so discouraging. I worked so hard to get away from family and I don't want another life to "fix those relationships".
The only way I would want to reincarnate is if I got to have one of those "on earth on vacation" lives. Like a beautiful, rich, healthy person with a great family, and an easy, exciting life. Lol no more hardships and "character growth". I'm good.
I want to take my next life off. I'd be born as a cat owned by a single woman. Not have to do anything I didn't want to. Sleep 18 hours a day, have someone feed me & take care of me, and I could tear up anything I wanted and still be loved.
