Below I am posting a link to an online quiz I just took after looking up "online quiz" on google. The goal of said quiz was to determine what you were in a past life. Interestingly enough, none of the possibilities given by the quiz creator were actual creatures/animals that exist in our world that we know today. They included dragons, unicorns, and, my personal result, mermaid/man. Of the thousands of others who took the same quiz for some reason, most of them got the result of "Dragon." What attracted me to this quiz as opposed to all of the other slightly ridiculous quizzes on this site was due to a personal experience of mine.
Over the summer, both of my grandparents on my mother's side passed away sadly. She had a few falling outs with them over the years and what not, but she still loved them as any son or daughter does their own. When they passed, it happened pretty suddenly and surprisingly within the same month. Getting to the point, after this happened I could tell it affected her pretty heavily. She started acting differently. It seemed like every other day she would convince herself of a new theory, such as "two deer ran across the yard today, it was Lola and Lolo reincarnated." (what we would call them for heritage reasons). Two flies in the bathroom... "its them!" She would exclaim. At first I was worried. Is she crazy? I would ask myself. But soon I came to an important realization. What she is saying is no more or less "crazy" than any other theory on existence and what happens after we die. I was wrong to even ask myself that question. Maybe it was some sort of innocent brainwashing by the few years of Catholic school education and once-or-twice-a-year church outings for Christmas/Easter. I never really thought about reincarnation too much. Never really thought about anything like that other than "yeah that Jesus guy probably did all those things that he did and stuff... I guess?" Point in case, there are other things on an adolescent's mind other than religion. Moreover, our thoughts with a young brain are less philosophical and metaphysical. They are more-so concrete in nature.
Anyways, the point is that there are certain lessons that we learn as we get older. After this experience I realized that no, my mother is not crazy. Your own beliefs and the religion that you follow are simply there to give hope. There are too many theories to keep track of and the truth is, no one knows the truth. Maybe we go to Heaven or Hell. Maybe we reincarnate into deer and flies. Maybe nothing at all. But people don't want to hear "nothing at all." Its too depressing to think about. When you die its just over. That's an awful thought. This is why religion is such an important sector in today's society. And it doesn't matter what you believe in. Nothing is too nonsensical or absurd, as long as you truly believe in it. Without hope of life after death, what do we really have? We have something that lasts 60 or 70 or 80 years. The goal of religious ideals is to make us infinite and give us hope.
Survey: https://www.quotev.com/quiz/9026452/What-were-you-in-a-past-life
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