Not talking metaphysically, though absolutely do feel welcome to entertain us with any past life experiences.
More the impermanence of existence and how you experience yourself so changed as to qualify as a different person. I think I'm up to 10 or 12 maybe? Depends on how you slice it.
- earliest childhood before I had a sibling
- first home/neighborhood/school before we moved when I was 10 or 11 vs. new home/neighborhood/school
- when my parents split/divorced
- when the house was sold and just my mom and I briefly lived in a rented place
- my first apartment on my own and then a little house
- meeting my first husband and that period of time with that circle of friends vs.
- starting up with my second husband
- becoming a parent
- moving across the country
- an entire life in that state
- multiple hard things + moving back
I'm ready for the next one. Trying to stress less and flow more.
Seriously worth a watch, not only for people actively in transition. Stick with it...it's only 12 minutes and hits different points.
Off to walk, but I'll be back. AFAIK anyway.
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06-09-2023, 07:54 AM #1
How many lives have you lived so far?
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06-09-2023, 08:04 AM #3
Good introspective post srs. Sucks you had to have two husbands though lol. Truly a miracle that my parents, aunts, and uncles have been married for 30 yrs+. I think you're not counting some stuff because I'm younger than you and can already think of 10-12 different lives I've lived. Just college alone was good for 3 or 4. So many relationships, different living situations, part time jobs etc in a short span. I also consider career/job to be important to identity so everytime you switch companies or jobs its an entirely different life.
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06-09-2023, 09:56 AM #4
I gotta start walking earlier. Already getting tan lines and so sweaty. Showered.
High T detected.
Yes. Certainly wasn't something I planned/expected.
The first one I think maybe we could have made it with better communication and maturity. The second one I got into another relationship too quickly and should have ended it before it got to marriage. I was trying to do the right thing and just kept staying because we had a child and it wasn't awful all the time...flipped back and forth between highs and lows before settling in at a lower amplitude.
It does really depend on how you measure. Promise that 13 year old me never expected 25 year old me, or 34 year old me. Definitely did not expect to be where I am now.INTP Crew
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Of course it isn't every new experience. How drastic of an event or change counts as a new life? Matter of opinion.
I think that most people who have children would say that their life was forever changed and that they had one life before and a different life after.INTP Crew
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for me, every new "life" is more like something I identify myself to. So far I have been sailor, a pilot, a boxer, financial analyst, programmer. This is 5 very demanding new streams I was going through. Wives do not count for men, this is something that just happens. I am in my second marriage for that last 15 years, but I would not call it another "life".
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