Assuming that reincarnation exists

[ctbsd24]

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?

 

[yumeganai]

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.

 

[PlannedforPeru]

I wouldn't mind a redo of my current set-up, but my brain needs to be wired waaaaaay the fuck differently.

 

[sweetcreep]

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.

 

[HenryHenriksen_6E]

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.

 

[FuneralCry]

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]

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.

 

[CantDoIt]

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]

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?

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.

 

[Lost in a Dream]

No, just please no.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

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..

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.

This!!

 

[itsnigh]

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.

 

[003]

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]

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

 

[MatrixPrisoner]

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]

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

 

[AAE]

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.

 

[TraumaEscapee:)]

I wouldn't care what I was born as, as long as I was loved and cared about.

 

[PromisedLand]

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.

 

[struggles_inc]

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.

 

[Whydid]

no. I don't want to come back here ever

 

[offtoseethewizard]

I'd want to come back as someone I liked being

 

[kat6]

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.

 

[Leiot]

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.

 

[ZeroM24]

Being born again would just be a punishment. There is nothing in life that I feel like is worth all this suffering. I wish I could just kill myself today, and that wish repeats every day. This endless waiting for my body to fail or an accident is so fucking tiresome...I think I will just snap someday and quickly do it cause I hate life so much and my brain cant work anymore

 

[divinemistress36]

I would still want to be female born somewhere like New Zealand. Not mentally ill and a Neuroscientist if I had to come back

 

[lastboyscout]

As far as I know, the probability of being reincarnated on this planet is practically the same as winning the Euro Millions , zero.

Since there are millions of planets and galaxies it's more likely to happen somewhere else. However, there seems to be a limit for number of reborns, at a certain point souls who got evolved enough in terms of wisdom and experience will no longer be able to reincarnate again (at least in the same universe... not sure)

In the small chance reborning here again, i think i would go with human.. i dont imagine myself as a fish, a hypo or a dog lol t

i would ask to be a famous person. No need to be as Michael Jackon, Ronaldo or Di Capprio or in a particular area.. can be a local cirurgian , entrepreneur, or perhaps as musician in a rock band like metallica or an Hollywood Actor like Sean Connery or World class soccer player like Ronaldo would just be good enough :)

If famous wouldnt be possible then i would try experiment being a women
Now that physical strength aint fundamental condition to humans well-being and survival i think this is going eventually to turn into a women´s World and they will be the prevalent and most likely the stronger specie (..of course as long i wasnt born in a Islamic or similar country) ;)

The place will be fine as long aint too hot or too cold and doesn't rain all the time ... Also ideally with no catastrophes like hurricanes or earthquakes...