Past Lives

A tricky subject isn't it? At the end of the day, it comes down to what you believe. Personally, I believe in past lives. I believe in reincarnation. I don't believe it for any objective reason. I've never met someone who can prove they were someone else (and by this I don't mean a famous person from history, I mean you're average joe bloggs). But personally I find it difficult to believe that we can achieve our full purpose in one lifetime. Life is too short, how can we grow in so short a time?
But I also believe as a result of some of my experiences. Nothing mind-blowing, no giant revelations. But little hints and signs.
For example, I have a paralysing fear of a certain fairground ride: paratrooper. For those of you who don't recognise the name, it looks roughly like a series of umbrellas with seats attached around a circle. It's not a scary ride. It's slow, it doesn't go very high. It is designed for young children. And the one time my sister convinced me to go on it with her, I spent the entire time with my eyes clamped shut, clutching her arm and with death related newspaper headlines running through my head. I was utterly convinced it was going to break and I was going to die in some horrible freak fairground accident. And as soon as I got off the ride I went on a ride that relied on centrifugal force to keep me in place. Without a moments hesitation. To give a full understanding of this, my sister was 12. I was 15. Not exactly the right age to be scared of a kids ride. I have never had an incident with one. No-one I know was ever involved. No-one I know has ever even heard of one going wrong. I have no explanation.
My other example is to do with my relationships. Several of my friends I felt an instant kinship with. Most of all with my best friend from high school. The instant I met her it was as if I had always known her. We hit it off instantly, knew things about each other instinctively. We shared dreams, feelings, all sorts of things. Now part of that may have been that we met as both of us were "awakening" to our respective gifts, so to speak. But I know that no matter how long we are seperated for or how far apart we are nothing changes. We know each other inside and out. Even now we will text each other out of nowhere to check the other is ok. I'll get a gut feeling something is up and the next time we talk there will have been something happening at the time I felt it. Part of that is my empathy. Part is the fact she is my best friend. But I honestly believe another part is that we have known each other before.
You don't have to have memories to believe. It can rarely be proven, and it's very difficult to really know. One thing I have always wanted to do is a past life regression, but I don't have the means right now. Maybe one day. But I think if you are curious, it must be a wonderful experience and well worth doing.