What Life Is This?

Hi, all! *waves* It's Gracen here for my Friday chatter. *wink*

I have heard that we are born in the generation we could do the most, be the most effective. These words keep resonating through my head as I am faced with the ramifications of a lightening storm that has knocked out my Internet and telephone service. Ugh! Strange how I lived 28 years without any form of Internet service and now I feel disconnected from the world without it because I cannot talk to my forum buddies or surf the web. I cannot even pay my bills without my Internet. I feel like I’m stranded on a deserted island. I know, that is a bit dramatic, but it is true nonetheless. I am forced to write this blog from my wifi connection at my son’s karate school. It’s terribly inconvenient. I cannot even get my five minutes of news without turning on the television or opening a newspaper. But then, why would I want to use this ancient technology, right? ;-)

So, this makes me wonder…if I have lived before what might it have been like without the basics like electricity or running water? We take it all for granted. Even my cell phone should be backing me up with telephone service right now, but it refuses to cooperate and receive a signal at my home. *crosses my arms over my chest and makes an angry face* My technology has failed me! But I know I will eventually be able to plug back into the matrix at some point in the near future.

Can any of you imagine talking to your buddies only through the pony express? Me personally, I am thankful for all my cyber buddies and cannot imagine life without you all! I’m missing all of you, especially my Supernatural Bust Dean Outta Hell Brigade buddies! *whimper…sniffle…whimper* Okay, I’ll stop the whining now. ;-)

But what if I could reincarnate into the future? How different would the landscape look? Will our roadways be in the sky and in spaceships? Will we still be dependent upon gas or will we be using the natural free air to power our motorized vehicles? Will we have destroyed our atmosphere or learned how to clean it up? Will we have colonized space…or maybe Mars? LOL. Maybe we will be befriending aliens through a Stargate program? What? It could happen…couldn’t it? Is any of this even possible?

The possibility of future advances is one of the reasons that make the idea of reincarnation so fascinating for me. Another is being able to reinvent myself over and over again with differing outcomes, like I do when I write characters in my books. Speculating that reincarnation is real, how many times are we reborn? Is there a limit? I wonder how it would work, or if it is at our discretion?

I do not have any personal experience with reincarnation myself. I’m on the fence whether I believe in it or not. I like the idea and the possibilities of it, but any solid belief is lost out there in limbo land.

Someone commented to Sierra’s blog on Monday that recurrent dreams could be past life memories. I mentioned my recurring tornado dream. Man, I hope that I didn’t die in a tornado, but I’ve had it so many times, I guess if reincarnation exists, then it would be plausible that I’ve experienced a tornado in a past life. Another recurring dream is where I am calling frantically for my son. Sometimes I find him, sometimes I do not, but each time I find him, it is the current real-life child I am looking for. Even in the dream, however, I know that he is my son. Is this a past life regression or simply real life fears?

I have a girlfriend that is on the fence about reincarnation, but her son asked her—about six years ago when he was five years old—if she would be his mother in his next life. She asked him why he thought he would be reincarnated and he said he knew how things worked.

Talk about from the mouth of babes…

Have a great weekend everyone! :-)