Possible controversial statement here, but I really hesitate to believe what most people say their past lives were. Usually because their only reasoning comes down to “I’ve always loved x thing, so obviously in a past life I was x person.”
And I super hesitate to believe anyone who lives in a position of privilege now and claims that in a past life they were an oppressed person. Especially when they think that means they can somehow speak for that minority now. (i.e. a white person claiming they were Native American in a past life, so it’s okay to talk over actual Native Americans about current political and cultural issues they experience)
Of course, maybe they were. Not everyone’s an embellisher. (Though it is kind of interesting how you never hear that someone was simply just a farmer or something. Everyone did/experienced some wild shit in their past life.) Still, you know, I’ve always loved spaghetti, ever since I was a kid, I mean, it’s fucking amazing, but I also don’t think I used to be a bowl of spaghetti made by an oppressed minority in 1842. Might just be me, though. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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