Curious Fox 𓃦 · 10d
I won’t spoil anything for you but there’s always a deep, almost romantic reason behind what Hannibal does..or maybe we’re just crazy enough to romanticize it 😌 Either way, Will’s manipulation is part of something much bigger. You’ll see.
But since you mentioned reincarnation, I'd honestly love to know what you think. There's this idea that older, content people often say one life is enough. Not because life is suffering, but cuz they've tasted its fullness and they're genuinely satisfied. That feels like peace.
But then I think about the other side of reincarnation.
Would you want to be reincarnated if that reincarnation is nothing but a punishment for something you did in the past and you are condemned to live thousands of tragic deaths for what you've done, carrying the weight of every memory, every agony and never allowed to forget the pain? You've lived for centuries -each life ends with you being stabbed by your lover, and in that last embrace they'd given you as you died by their hands, you had missed them, over and over again. And in every reincarnation, you're grieving..like you're trying not to break from the pain.
And would you still want to be reincarnated if, in one life, your lover finally held you the way you'd imagined countless times during all those past lives when their embraces had ended in tragedy? Every time, you had welcomed them with open arms before death. But this time, they never let go.
I feel like if anyone could give a beautiful, haunting answer to this, it would be you.
-MirrorCrush
Hmm...
The way I view reincarnation may differ quite contrastingly from other opinions.
I don't see reincarnation as a "karmatic" invention to serve justice and balance struggles. If that were the case, we wouldn't be repeating history.
Just like everything in life, down to the tiniest synapse and cell, everything is a cycle. I consider living and dying the same. But a rebirth is not predictable, it's quite random, so one life you could be a person struggling with trauma longer than the character count in a dictionary, while in the next that same person could be a someone in power struggling a different set of issues while having no worries over money or who will attack them.
Just the same, someone could be a happy person in one life but a smudge of disgusting character in the next.
Hell, someone could even become an animal, or an animal becomes a human.
Does that make my way of thinking mythological? A fantasy? 🤷🏻
I think... No matter the pain I've endured in this life, I'd still believe in reincarnation because my hope is that one life time.. it won't hurt so much. Maybe I'll get a chance to hold power and choice without it being taken from me. Maybe I'll be able to sleep without worrying if my next breath is more painful than the one before, if food is available, or if I'm simply good enough.
Maybe in a next life I'll see the people I miss and think "this person feels entirely too familiar for someone I've just glanced at..."
I wished memory stuck through each transition, so that we could learn from the past. NOT repeat it.
As I watch what's happening in the world, I may remain silent but I sure as hell am not ignorant. I do my moving quietly.
But, I'm watching the past repeat itself.. and I sit back like "and there are people who genuinely think this is fine? Even when there's proof that it is not?"
Again, it's a mindless cycle.
What is your take, MC?
